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Okay, maybe I'm being a little vague (again).
Sorry, it's a bad habit.
What I really want out of networked processors, is
the ability to multitask efficiently. I understand that most everyone in
here likes the idea of a customized chip for special problems - but I'm focusing
on a specialized chip for general purpose problems. I woud like to replace
the Intel market with something 100x smaller, and 10x cheaper, that is 1000x
more powerful. The F21 processor becomes a low expense when created in
bulk. But a single F21 for a typical home computer system might choke in
performance (and I'm making the assumption that since this isn't a perfect
world, not every program ran on the machine will be Forth, or efficiently coded
Forth.) I had discussed with Mr. Fox about duplicating multiple F21s onto
a single chip... and his suggestion was to leave the F21 a single set but use
them in nodes. The node would have many F21s on it, "networked" in one
arrangement or the other, but I would have the node be treated as a single
processor.
Mr. Tanksley has already mentioned to me about the
Omega Shuffle being a choice of network. But to clarify, the network I'm
thinking of is not for multiple users, but for a single computer
system.
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