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On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 02:26:47PM -0700, Peter William Lount wrote:
Each of the Tile 64 Processors is thousands of more times more powerful than that old 6502 based Apple ][ system. I can imagine what Gemstone Warrior would be like on it! Fully object oriented, fully message oriented, fully 4-D (3D+Time)!
If you really want a chip to play with as a hobby with potential for future success play with the Tile 64 chip!
Smalltalk on the Tile 64 chip will be hot! When will it happen?
Jecel Assumpcao Jr. is working on a quite similar project. He is putting Neo Smalltalk [1] on a 9-core Plurion [2] processor. He has said he will follow this up with a port of Spoon. More information can be found on his hardware Swiki [3].
I'll be working with him on this project as part of my graduate studies.
[1]. Neo Smalltalk: http://www.merlintec.com:8080/software http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5637
[2]. A very out-of-date description of Plurion architecture: http://www.merlintec.com/download/plurion.pdf
A description of the actual processor being used: http://www.merlintec.com:8080/hardware/32
[3]. Jecel's hardware Swiki: http://www.merlintec.com:8080/hardware