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This was designed by Chuck Moore, the inventor of Forth, and who's still doing work in this space, except instead of a single very simple core like this, he's m
by lambda 13y ago
This was designed by Chuck Moore, the inventor of Forth, and who's still doing work in this space, except instead of a single very simple core like this, he's making chips with 144 extremely simple cores. http://www.greenarraychips.com/ http://www.greenarraychips.com/
- unwind 13y agoAh, that explains the almost non-existant explanation of the design being a stack machine. :) I was a bit surprised when it said something along the lines of "the processor has OVER but not SWAP"; those are very stack-centric instructions. Also, the "M" in MISC was never explained which irked me. Is it a pun, as in "miscellaneous"? Or "minimal"? It's strange to propose a name that feels a lot like a new acronym, but never spell it out.
- Sanddancer 13y agoMinimal. He chose it because it only has 21 operations, as opposed to RISC machines which had 50 or so at the time.