OT: Language for the ages

[Allison]

>
>Subject: Re: OT:  Language for the ages
>   From: Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic.com>
>   Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 12:33:58 -0400
>     To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
>
>>>>>> "William" == William Donzelli <aw288 at osfn.org> writes:
>
> >> Is it?  Given that we don't have 20-20 prescience, how about 20-20
> >> hindsight?  Could you implement C on any computer with sufficient
> >> memory?
>
> William> In 30 years, our processor-memory model might be a thing of
> William> the past.
>
>Why?  It's 60-70 years old already and shows no signs at all of going
>away.
>
>	paul

I've exprimented with a rather simple microprogam state machine where 
there is no ALU or other logic.  Just one huge eprom with all the 
possible results of two factors.  The machine reduced to a fetch 
instruction, lookup results (the factors are addresses to the eprom),
return result. At a 50,000ft view its a standard Von looking thing,
close in there is none of the usual hardware. So I would be suggesting
that which externally conventional in programming the implmentation
could really be off the current map.


Allison