>>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.
>
> 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.
What era? And, which market? The 6502 was a large commercial success
during it's era. It was the cheapest and most powerful chip of it's time.
The x86 is a large continuing commercial success in the PC market with
95-99%% market share per year. The ARM (and someone else had to update me on
this fairly recently...) is a very large commercial success in the embedded
market (cellphones, PDA's, etc.).
> 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.
