[5439] in java-interest
Re: Java chips
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bosch@mcs.com)
Thu Feb 8 22:53:10 1996
From: bosch@mcs.com
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 96 20:30:03 +0600
To: faisal@tgm.com, java-interest@java.sun.com
Reply-To: bosch@mcs.com
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What's the deal with Java chips? What are the intended uses?
Are they for "Java accelarators" or full blown Java systems? And are
they an entirely new design, or just a lightweight RISC state machine
with a Java software (or firmware, or something) front end in front
to get Java translation happening without having to use a stack based
chip design?
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:) I would say "All of the Above!" Considering that Java is already compiled into
byte-length opcodes, creating a chip which would execute this code processor-style is
not a gigantic leap of the imagination.
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