[HN Gopher] My4TH - A minimalistic FORTH computer with discrete CPU ___________________________________________________________________ My4TH - A minimalistic FORTH computer with discrete CPU Author : incanus77 Score : 116 points Date : 2023-03-28 17:00 UTC (6 hours ago) (HTM) web link (mynor.org) (TXT) w3m dump (mynor.org) | actionfromafar wrote: | This is the real deal! | | If I ever saw an autarkic computer, this is it. | | It can be scaled both up and down. It could be implemented with | discrete components in a small room with air conditioning, or it | could be made into an FPGA or ASIC. | kragen wrote: | how big is the eprom, that might be too big for discrete | components in a small room | UncleOxidant wrote: | How about this on an FPGA? | an-unknown wrote: | But where is the fun then? You can easily build rather fancy | CPUs on an FPGA, fancy enough to boot a small Linux system in | the end. | UncleOxidant wrote: | I already had that fun back in the 80s. Wirewrapped a lot of | my own projects. Now I prefer to just use an FPGA. | kragen wrote: | okay then what's the advantage of my4th over something like | picorv32 for you | Taniwha wrote: | Tiny tapeout - 2 weeks until the next one closes, plenty of | time ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-03-28 23:00 UTC)