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On Friday, March 9, 2012 7:56:34 AM UTC-6, Brian Drummond wrote:
>=20
> There was a lot of interesting hardware at the time. I was intrigued by=
=20
> the similarity between Transputer and Lilith instruction formats, which=
=20
> might be worth re-examining where code density (or making it fit in=20
> cache) is important.
>=20
> - Brian

Which others of those interesting technologies (or the idea behind them) do=
 you suppose was a missed opportunity?

I remember reading about the Lisp-Machines that came out, and some of the d=
evelopment tools they had. The "step into / modify [executing] code" debugg=
ing seems worlds ahead of anything I've seen on the *nix front (admittedly =
only a cursory glance) and substantially ahead of the windows debuggers. (M=
S's .NET debugging w/ VS doesn't allow for on-the-fly modification; Borland=
's Delphi debugger allowed you to modify variables / registers on-the-fly, =
IIRC.)