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felix@×××××××.com, mused, then expounded: |
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> I have long had a fantasy of sorts of someone coming out with a |
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> generic processor taht could be reconfigured on the fly -- of coming |
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> up with my own instruction set for it, so a custom gcc backend could |
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> produce code for it, and it would be immune to all malware which |
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> depends on the specific instruction set. Even, at moments, thinking |
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> of having permutations of the instructions every few months, just to |
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> ad variety to things. I had brief moments of interest in Transmeta |
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> for just that reason, but they quickly disappeared. |
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Well, not generic, but in the same spirit, it can plug into an AMD 940 |
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pin cpu socket. And one has two vendors to choose from - |
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http://www.drccomputer.com/ |
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http://www.xtremedatainc.com/ |
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Not exactly cheap to get into, and it doesn't use gcc as it's VHDL. So, |
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maybe too restrictive, but it's re-configurable and 1 or more,, up to |
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7 can theoretically be used in an 8 socket AMD based platform. Interestingly |
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enough, both companies development stations come with Linux as the os. |
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Bob |
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