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To: OldAIMGuy who wrote (5415)	8/25/1998 8:15:00 PM
From: Jack Park	Read Replies (1) of 18928

I've taken a strong personal interest (read: maybe buy some stock:-) in PTSC. The chip is just what the world needs. Problem with all Forth chips is that Forth, itself, is about as unpopular as anything can be. Maybe you remember that there was a nifty multiprocessing chip designed by the British a while back. It got used in an enormous multiprocessor box by, if memory serves, Floating Point Systems. Nobody bought it simply because they didn't have a Fortran compiler. Oh well. All the legacy stuff out there is done in Fortran or Cobol (can you spell Y2K?) I notice that PTSC has a c compiler. From there, I'd guess they could bootstrap a Fortran compiler which would make the chip available to all the massive scientific and engineering work out there. That, of course, is Wintel's turf. I don't hold much hope for that. But, my interest goes in the direction of distributed intelligence. For that, a couple of million patriot boxes hanging on a network running the Java Jini network system would begin to have the look and feel of one helluva smart system. It gets better when they go 64-bits so it can swallow doubles in one clock cycle. Gads could we crunch some numbers with that :-) Jack

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