FPGA VAX update

[der Mouse]

>>> According to a talk I saw on the web a few years ago now, by one of
>>> the guys in charge of P3 (or P4), people still ask "can I have
>>> such-and-such" an instruction!
>> The nerve of them!  Expecting what people want to actually matter to
>> the processor designers!
> Now, now.  If you ask a hundred different TLAs what they most need
> added to the ISA to best help them infringe people's liberties you'll
> get one hundred different answers :-)

Certainly.  But you can't learn about the three that are wanted by a
nontrivial fraction of the userbase without listening to them all.

I didn't say they had to actually implement all - or even any - of
those suggestions.  But not even being interested in the suggestions is
just plain lunacy.

> Seriously, if you need pop(N) or whatever, you can implement it today
> and in a year (or two) from now you'll be running as fast as you
> thought you would have been with pop(N).

And you have the nerve to preface that with "seriously"?!  You could
say the same about pretty much any software thing - simulate it and let
Moore's Law speed it up.  Some of us aren't willing to wait a year (or
two) per feature to run it at a decent speed.

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