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Re:TIS-100 – Tessellated Intelligence System by strangecasts on Saturday October 08, 2016 @02:24PM (#12667979)
> for an architecture that could never exist.

Interestingly, there is a real world equivalent to the TIS architecture: the GA144[1] has lots of memory-constrained Forth cores with software defined I/O between them.

[1] http://www.greenarraychips.com/

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Re:TIS-100 – Tessellated Intelligence System by db48x on Saturday October 08, 2016 @06:37PM (#12669034)
Or the Connection Machine, where the individual processors were arranged in a hypercube.
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Re:TIS-100 – Tessellated Intelligence System by qwertyuiop924 on Saturday October 08, 2016 @07:22PM (#12669201)
Similar architectures could exist, but the exact one the TIS used? Not in a million years, unless somebody was explictly doing it to recreate the game IRL.
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Re:TIS-100 – Tessellated Intelligence System by db48x on Sunday October 09, 2016 @03:27AM (#12670230)
Ok, sure. It's only similar to architectures which have existed. I doubt there have been any serious ones which limited you to a dozen instructions at a time :)

There's nothing in the TIS-100 architecture that is unique or unheard of, just things that are left out of it.

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