Author: Slater Wold
Date: 15:03:53 08/05/01
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On August 05, 2001 at 15:32:56, jorge luis borges wrote: > This was snipped from Slashdot, where some AMD employee posted some >interessting thing about future AMD processor. > >"The next-generation chips from AMD are being designed with programming >optimizations done at the firmware level. For example, a FORTH interpreter is >being ingrained into the preprocessing area on the chip die itself. This makes >it easier not only to add firmware-level software like BIOS, bootloaders, etc >more easily, without resorting to running the code through a compiler into X86 >instructions and machine code, but it will also make it much easier to write >more optimized C compilers (and other compilers for that matter). If you combine >this with the improved instruction technology that AMD will be incorporating, it >makes for a very powerful new platform for all programmers. > >Dwain Snyders >Research and Development, AMD" > > Reading this I wonder if soon we can have a Fritz or Tiger firmwares running >on the core. Now thats will great! That is _basically_ what made Deep Blue so strong. It needed no software, to know 100% how to play chess. Slate
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