Re: Memories are made of....

[Penio Penev <penev@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 21 Aug 1997 wmor1@student.monash.edu.au wrote:

> I beleive that  subversion (right word?) is the best way to get stack 
> machines on the desktop.  If we produced expansion cards around stack 
> chips, millions could be produced, after this time drivers could be 
> produced to route Java code to them to perform.  Simple but a start 
> (actually we could just produce  IO Java cards from the start).

Wow!  And then we could even -- excuse the heresy -- put straight FORTH on
the I/O cards! And even entice large hw manufacturers like SUN and
Motorola put FORTH virtual machines in their BIOS-es

I shudder, together with some SUN senior enginners, at the heresy of
thought :-)

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