Re:Stack Computers: 4.4 Architecture of the Novix NC4016 (1989)
by denton-scratch on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @06:54AM
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I think the only hardware implementation was on a FPGA. I don't see why the Novix architecture could not be re-implemented using modern chips; e.g. 64-bit, 2GHz, onboard cache, etc.
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Re:Stack Computers: 4.4 Architecture of the Novix NC4016 (1989)
by abecedarius on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @11:18AM
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A gate array iirc, but definitely not FPGA: I remember reading in the manual that there was a bug in one of the instructions (the multiply-step, I think?). With an FPGA they'd surely have just fixed it instead of shipping a batch of buggy chips.