Re:Ask HN: What are forgotten topics in computing that deser...
by RetroTechie on Friday November 06, 2026 @12:14PM
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Add Forth to your list. There's 1 or 2 CPU's out there that came with a Forth engine in hardware (iirc). And there's some chips heavily optimized to run Forth systems (see eg. GreenArrays GA144. Sadly seems to be defunct these days?).
As for your original question: you might want to have a look at languages that overlap the border between 'traditional' PLs, and hardware description languages. Or hardware/software co-design, and tools used in that field.
> The only example I know of is the one that runs Java bytecode
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GA144
As for your original question: you might want to have a look at languages that overlap the border between 'traditional' PLs, and hardware description languages. Or hardware/software co-design, and tools used in that field.
> The only example I know of is the one that runs Java bytecode
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle
Probably implemented in billions of ARM cores out there. Unsure how much use it sees though.