Re: ZISC (Zero Instruction Set Computing)

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From: Ian Kemmish
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 00:00

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In article <35d04383.0@news.victoria.tc.ca>, mentifex@scn.org says...

>Now there is http://www.fr.ibm.com/france/cdlab/zisc.htm ZISC, or
>Zero Instruction Set Computing, in the form of a neural-net chip.

``Now''?  John Conway was teaching this in his second year mathematics courses 
in the late '70s at Cambridge, and I remember seeing it in at least one of his 
recreational books.  I've also mentioned it more than once here.

Wake up, lad....


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From: ian@five-d.com (Ian Kemmish)
Subject: Re: ZISC (Zero Instruction Set Computing)
Date: 1998/08/11
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