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To: Tony Viola who wrote (86000)	7/19/1999 8:34:00 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) of 186894

Tony/Tench/Paul E/All, Article in this month's Scientific American about the future of computing. One article caught my eye regarding the future of microchips. Their ideal is to essentially have a chip which has wiring that can be reprogrammed for different tasks by software, instead of having an instruction set embedded. Excerpt:Clearly, we have an amazing opportunity before us. We can, of course fritter away this opportunity. One way to do so would be to continue advancing or chip architecture and technologies as just more of the same; building microprocessors that are simply more complicated versions of the kind built today. The problem is that the current architecture for microprocessors does not scale. Most personal computers using interface called the instructions set architecture, for ISA, between the hardware and software. The instructions in the ISA move data from storage location of the microprocessor to function units for the data are added, multiplied or otherwise processed. My problem with these ideals is that they fail to take into consideration the evolution of the microchip as we now know it. Moving from one standard to another is not as simple as flipping a switch. Wouldn't a chip such as the one they are proposing simply require software manufacturers to "hardwire" the chip, passing the buck so to speak? TIA. This is above the limits of my feeble mind:-) Brian

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