[HN Gopher] Stack Computers: the new wave (1989) [pdf] ___________________________________________________________________ Stack Computers: the new wave (1989) [pdf] Author : LAC-Tech Score : 32 points Date : 2022-11-27 20:05 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (users.ece.cmu.edu) (TXT) w3m dump (users.ece.cmu.edu) | RyanShook wrote: | Are stacks mainly used in software design while registers are | mainly used in hardware design? What is the trade off? | joe_the_user wrote: | Interesting. Only somewhat related; any pointers to | articles/document on implementing a stack-based virtual machine? | spaintech wrote: | This might have what you need... | https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/uxn.html interesting design and | fun little project. | bugfix-66 wrote: | Look at the Green Arrays F18, the "conclusion" that Forth | reached: | | https://www.greenarraychips.com/home/documents/greg/PB003-11... | | Here's a clear description of what each instruction does: | | https://colorforth.github.io/forth.html | | Hilariously, the system has no logical OR, only AND and XOR and | NOT, because "Inclusive-or is rarely needed." | | This system was designed by Chuck Moore, father of Forth. Here | is an entertaining video of him explaining the F18A stack | machine and programming system: | | https://youtu.be/0PclgBd6_Zs | | This is such a simple machine. I am planning to make a tiny | emulator for my site. One could probably write an emulator in | 80 lines of Go (one goroutine for each of the 144 cores). ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-11-27 23:00 UTC)