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Next Generation Stack Computing
mymanfryday writes "It seems that stack computers might be the next big thing. Expert Eric
Laforest talks
about stack computers and why they are better than register-based
computers. Apparently NASA uses stack computers in some of their probes. He
also claims that a kernel would only be a few kilobytes large! I wonder if
Windows will be supported on a stack computer in the future?"
In Redmond, 640 bytes isn't enough for anybody.
I thought the 387 and Burroughs B5000 were odd, antiquated architectures, but apparently they're the wave of the future.
Ewige Blumenkraft.
Someone's having a larf. Oh you do crack me up Messrs mymanfryday and CmdrTaco.
Please try the bittorrent. No, wait... Teach em a lesson, make em burn.
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Mathematicians like stack computers because its easier to formally prove the behaviour of algorithms using stacks.
Hardware engineers like stack computers because the hardware is interesting and easy to design
Investors hate them because they keep loosing money on them.
Evil people are out to get you.
Apparently NASA uses stack computers in some of their probes.
In space no one can hear you blue screen of death. Unless you work for Lucas Films.
I once had a job where I had to sort through stacks of computers. Overall the stacks were pretty useless, a bunch of burnt out 286s. Even if you put all your redundant computing power into a stack doesn't neccesarily make it better!
No, no, no, NO! This is SLASHDOT! The proper response is "Does it run Linux "?
Evil is as eval("does");
It's all fun and games until someone hits a stack underflow.
"They redundantly repeated themselves over and over again incessantly without end ad infinitum" -- ibid.
Do these come in short- and tall-stack versions?
Are maple syrup and butter options?
If "disco" means "I learn" in Latin, does "discothèque" mean "I learn technology"?
RISC assembly code? That's so weak. I'd rather spend a day writing an assebmly routine that has an equivalent single obscure machine instruction I didn't know about beforehand, thank you very much.
Nothing to see here. Sorry.
Since the dawn of time, the x86 FPU has been organized as a stack
No no no, since the dawn of time, Man has yearned to destroy the Sun!
x86 came much later, right after the COBOL and the other dinosaurs.
I cannot consider your post valid, as you've claimed that 2000's "Bewitched" was 'art'...
Stack computers, are basically like rack computers, except you can't pull out the one at the bottom.
The revolution will not be televised... but it will have a page on Wikipedia
You Forth (heart) if honk then
Quattuor res in hoc mundo sanctae sunt: libri, liberi, libertas et liberalitas.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of them.
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First, rotate your version 90 degrees counter-clockwise. Next exchange all '0's and '*'s. What do you have? The answer is down there in my sig.
I was going to use '*'s and '.'s but with variable width fonts I couldn't get it to come out in a grid and I couldn't figure out how to have a monospace font appear in my sig. Thus, I replaced the '.'s with '0's and have the version that you see.
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