Re: who can use a Harris RTX-2000 processor

From	rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: who can use a Harris RTX-2000 processor
Date	2017-04-12 00:31 -0400
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On 4/12/2017 12:04 AM, Paul Rubin wrote:
> rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> writes:
>> I'm good with VHDL, but I prefer to work from specifications rather
>> than trying to divine a spec from poor documentation.  I'm not clear
>> on what is available.
>
> The RTX-2000 was space qualified if I'm not confusing it with something
> else, so I'd expect it to be documented out the wazoo.  Maybe it's a
> matter of finding some manuals for it and working from those.  If it
> were me, I'd start with a software emulation.  Ymmv.

I'm sure there was lots of documentation.  I don't have any of it except 
for one document describing the instruction set which I seem to recall 
was a bit terse.  I don't recall seeing anything describing how it 
interfaced with the outside world.

> Why is the RTX-2000 interesting anyway?  Do people have old code they
> want to run on it?  Do they want to write new code for a stack processor
> just because it's cool?  If the latter, exact compatibility with the
> RTX-2000 isn't as important.  For that matter, there's always the J1.

The RTX-2000 had a complex machine instruction that could control 
separate parts of the CPU to allow multiple data movements in one 
instruction.  Again, I don't recall the details, but people often refer 
to it as supporting multiple instructions in one machine instruction.  I 
think that is a bit of an exaggeration, but perhaps technically true for 
a small set of parallel capable instructions.

-- 

Rick C

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who can use a Harris RTX-2000 processor "dfnum2@gmail.com" <dfnum3@gmail.com> - 2017-04-09 11:51 -0700
  Re: who can use a Harris RTX-2000 processor mentificium@gmail.com - 2017-04-10 19:04 -0700
  Re: who can use a Harris RTX-2000 processor JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2017-04-11 10:42 -0700
    Re: who can use a Harris RTX-2000 processor Clive Arthur <cliveta@nowaytoday.co.uk> - 2017-04-11 19:25 +0100
      Re: who can use a Harris RTX-2000 processor JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2017-04-12 01:05 -0700
    Re: who can use a Harris RTX-2000 processor Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-04-12 04:18 -0500
      Re: who can use a Harris RTX-2000 processor JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2017-04-12 11:39 -0700
      Re: who can use a Harris RTX-2000 processor JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2017-04-13 03:04 -0700
        Re: who can use a Harris RTX-2000 processor Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-04-13 05:41 -0500
  Re: who can use a Harris RTX-2000 processor rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-04-11 20:37 -0400
    Re: who can use a Harris RTX-2000 processor Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-11 17:46 -0700
      Re: who can use a Harris RTX-2000 processor rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-04-11 23:25 -0400
        Re: who can use a Harris RTX-2000 processor Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-11 21:04 -0700
          Re: who can use a Harris RTX-2000 processor rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-04-12 00:31 -0400
          Re: who can use a Harris RTX-2000 processor Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2017-04-12 07:10 +0200
            Re: who can use a Harris RTX-2000 processor lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2017-04-11 22:29 -0700
          Re: who can use a Harris RTX-2000 processor Clive Arthur <cliveta@nowaytoday.co.uk> - 2017-04-12 08:54 +0100

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