Re: New RISC chip?

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From: Kevin Sven Berg
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 19:23

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In article <1992Nov13.083519.1426@metrosoft.com> gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van  
Huizen) writes:
> > The strange thing is that this technology isn't even new. Check out
> > the WISC (Writeable Instruction Set Computers) that have floated
> > around the FORTH community for more than a decade. Extremely cool, 
> > and very fast :-) I only hope (like Bruce) this stuff sees 
> > commercial use.
> > 
> 
> Mainframes and super-minis have had writable control stores for almost 30  
> years...

I stand corrected. However, I don't believe these things have been 
around that long in silicon, which are the WISC chips that I was refering to.

regards,

Kevin
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