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Harris Semiconductor attempted to intro the "RTX" microncontroller in the late 1980s. It featured a true Forth-based instruction set. RTX never caught traction
by mud_dauber 13y ago
Harris Semiconductor attempted to intro the "RTX" microncontroller in the late 1980s. It featured a true Forth-based instruction set. RTX never caught traction due (IMO) to the lack of developer tools; the group was discontinued in ~1989.
- Someone 13y agoIf you mean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTX2010 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTX2010, that's nothing like what this describes. It's just a CPU with two hardware stacks (one more than the 6502 had). There's plenty of alternatives for Forth hardware, especially if you are willing to use a FOGA. What this describes is more like Moore's GreenArray hardware, but with way more, less powerful chips (if it were DRAM-like, a major difference would be that you would be able to address all those CPUs from the outside, not just a few, like in the GreenArray chips)