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Group: comp.lang.forth · Group Profile
Author: rickmanrickman Date: Jul 20, 2008 18:35
> Rod Pemberton wrote:
>>Is this a one-time FPGA cpu? I.e., do you have hopes of
>>commercial success? Against x86 and/or ARM? No offense
>>to FORTHers here, but IMO FORTH oriented cpu's haven't
>>had much market success... ever.
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> Ho hum, another Usenet poster bloviating about which CPUs
> have the most commercial success while mentioning only
> bit players who have a tiny share of the total market.
Don't worry about this guy. He either didn't understand what I was
asking about or has seem some other oddball stuff that he is confusing
with what I said. Either way I think he just needs to hear more about
this and I think he will see that I am not asking for anything really
"out there" (except maybe the using Forth stuff... ;^).
> x86, ARM, PIC, and even the mighty 8051 are niche products
> compared to microcontrollers made by by GeneralPlus/SunPlus,
> Elan/EMC, WinBond, Sonix, etc. This is an entire world
> that is invisible to you unless you are a designer of
> talking Barbie dolls, computer mice, or musical greeting
> cards. In this world, nearly 100%% of the software is
> written in highly optimized assembly language with Forth
> -- and AFAICT only Forth -- making some small inroads.
I am curious, who's forth gets used in this context? Is it one of the
big two? A smaller Forth player? Or do they roll their own?
Rick
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