[chbot] home brew CPU

[Charles Manning]

Chunk Moore, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_H._Moore, is another one of 
those over-achievers.

He invented the Forth programming language and designed a few processors that 
run Forth.

He also designed and a Forth-based PC + OS to match then wrote his own VLSI 
CAD system which he then used to develop some of his more recent chips.

His new game is http://greenarraychips.com They make severely multi-core 
embedded chips: 144 CPUs in 1cm^2 . This is an async design that can execute 
instructions in 1.5 ns instructions. Sounds interesting.


On Monday 15 November 2010 22:15:52 Mark Atherton wrote:
> I was talking to one of the guys about 'real hardware' this evening,
> none of this fancy x86 stuff, I mean my first 680kHz 6800 with 256 bytes
> SRAM.
>
> Anyway, the subject of the Bill Buzbee's Magic 1 came up -
> http://www.homebrewcpu.com
>
> Shortly after moving to NZ from about 40k from where Bill lives
> (California), I found his project and helped with some of the bring
> up of the hardware via email.
>
> So he has designed the instruction set, architecture, hardware,
> assembler and re-ported a C compiler. Not bad for a software type !
>
> Also, just found his video on youtube -
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv2TxiwAquM - first time I have seen him.
>
> Also never seen MakeFair before - "an annual block party for
> tinkerers" - sounds like Wed evening at Science Alive to me.
>
> Beware programmer who carry screwdrivers.
>
> -Mark
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