Re: A modern C128 8-bit

Oddly enough, your idea sounds a lot like what the next gen of X86
computer hardware is going to be like.
With multi-core processors coming on strong, mainstream computing is
going to be dealing with these problems very soon. Only with 64bit
CPU's rather than 8bit.
The Next Gen MacIntel desktop will probably be 8 Core. One group has
already tested 2 Quad Core Xeons on the current system and they work
just fine.
The problem is, no one knows how to program for these multicore
systems like this.

With even a 20Mhz 8/16bit CPU there's enough housekeeping chores to
keep the system busy, but with 8 3Ghz processors you start to run out
of stuff to assign them to.

http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm

And there are even bigger multicores in Intel's pipeline.

On Mar 24, 5:01 pm, "christianlott1" <christianlo...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

With a series of tiny cpus, maybe going all the way back to a 4040
where it was nybble at a time processing maybe you could set memory up
to where multiple 4 bit processors could work on such data faster and
more efficiently than a similarly fast (in mhz) wide set data width
processor.

So what I end up thinking about is a frame of tiny processors around
some central memory. Maybe they are single bit processors but with a
sufficiently large program counter or memory management interface.


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