From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,4c17e6ae73bd8c51 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!198.186.194.249.MISMATCH!transit3.readnews.com!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit4.readnews.com!panix!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada and UML Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:00:07 -0400 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: pcls6.std.com 1283432383 15215 192.74.137.71 (2 Sep 2010 12:59:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 12:59:43 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (irix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6/vj1/WVkUKzloQwQc8ogXBPdjw= Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13910 Date: 2010-09-02T09:00:07-04:00 List-Id: Brian Drummond writes: > Oooh, interesting ... "The horizontally-microprogrammed R1000 provided two > independent 64-bit data paths, permitting simultaneous computation and type > checking". All attempts to put fancy high-level-language features in hardware (or microcode -- same thing, from our (software) point of view) are doomed to failure. Another example is the Symbolics Lisp Machine. - Bob