Alan Kay <Alan.Kay at squeakland.org> wrote:
>
>The Sony PSII and PSIII are much more interesting *and* they allow 
>microcoding in many important places.
>
What was it they said in an article a few weeks ago? something like 73
processors in a 1-8-64 tree. Sounds fun. Assuming they actually let out
the development tools of course. The problem with XBox et al is the fee
to get into the kitchen and then having to get a signature so you can
distribute. If anyone knows of a way to help short circuit this, do let
me know since I have some ideas on making use of XBox/PS2 etc. Modchips
are not really an answer here.

> Well, IIRC, the first ARM that Tim did so many neat things with was 
> only about 25,000 transistors (and the Alto was a lot less than that).
That's right; we used to joke "25,000 transistors and no Gates" :-)

tim
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Tim Rowledge, tim at sumeru.stanford.edu, http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim
A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do.