Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Rod Pemberton" Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: http://www.lowrisc.org/ Open Core - is the Forth Community involved in this new 64Bit Core? Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 17:18:33 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <38ce3d1c-72a5-45fc-8672-aa3ce52e9099@googlegroups.com> <29c09bbe-60bb-4944-b78e-e461ea32c6b9@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: i+Urkql2cL38hhKqzSWEjg.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.16 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:34613 On Sun, 23 Nov 2014 22:45:05 -0500, the_gavino_himself wrote: > On Tuesday, November 18, 2014 4:17:06 PM UTC-5, Rod Pemberton wrote: >> As people look for new solutions to old problems, they >> inevitably recycle old solutions and call them new. >> First, it was the MILL architecture, now it's lowRISC. >> What's next? A 1024-bit PDP-11? A 1Thz 6502? Z80E9? >> > > What new cpu would you promote? New? None. The physical hardware that a processor must interface with hasn't changed any in decades or multiple decades. The memory interface and method to access devices is the same as the 1970's. Until the needs of the hardware changes radically, to the point of being incompatible with existing designs, the needs of the processor to connect to the hardware will remain fixed, as it is today. I.e., the design of a processor has reached a limit or constraint due to the machine architecture. Rod Pemberton