<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Alan Grimes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:agrimes@speakeasy.net">agrimes@speakeasy.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">richard snow wrote:<br>
> I tried to build the sources and ran into a couple problems. first it<br>
> was trying to use decgcc. Fixed that in the configure script.<br>
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</div>Dear god, man! where did you find such an incredible piece of hardware?<br>
<br>
I feel like you're trying to drive me to drinking by reminding me yet<br>
again of how beautiful CPUs could have been but aren't. =(<font color="#888888"><br>
</font></blockquote></div><br><br>(slowly getting off-topic here :-) )<br><br>Is it only the x86 architecture that is ugly? I found the ARM and MIPS instruction set quite nice. The ES-40 looks like a rather large piece of equipment to have in your living room.<br>
<br>My latest materialistic desire: <a href="http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/">http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/</a> - the TouchBook, which is based on the BeagleBoard and runs Linux. It uses an ARM CPU with a Cortex-A8 core; it includes support for the Thumb-EE instruction set which is specifically designed for running code generated by JIT compilers. There's potential there.<br clear="all">
<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#Thumb_Execution_Environment_.28ThumbEE.29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#Thumb_Execution_Environment_.28ThumbEE.29</a><br><br>Realistically though, I have no use for it and Squeak runs fine on my old celeron-based desktop.<br>
<br>Gulik.<br><br>-- <br><a href="http://gulik.pbwiki.com/">http://gulik.pbwiki.com/</a><br>