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From: claird at Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Cameron Laird)
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Date: 6 Apr 1999 08:27:32 -0500
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Subject: Python Chip
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References: <3703D175.85747FEE@pop.vet.uu.nl> <000501be7da7$450ddf20$879e2299@tim>
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Message-ID: <7ed244$ke9$1@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>
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In article <000501be7da7$450ddf20$879e2299 at tim>,
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Tim Peters <tim_one at email.msn.com> wrote:
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>[Martijn Faassen]
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>> This isn't official, but have you all heard about the Python chip?
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>> ... [recklessly premature disclosure deleted] ...
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>
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>[Chad Netzer]
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>> April fools, right?
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>
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>[Martin]
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>> No, no, this is as serious as a ten ton weight! Just ask Tim about the
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>> stress tests if you still don't believe it. :)
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>>
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>> Is-it-april-already-ly yours,
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>
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>As Martijn reported, the stress tests are going *amazingly* well, modulo a
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>subtle space/tab screwup in the hardware. I've completed VLSINANNY.py,
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>which will verify future hardware conformance to generally accepted
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>international leading whitespace principles, but the Russian part of the
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>team is refusing to cooperate in protest of Kosovo (although if you ask me,
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>they're just pissed at the Swedes for sneaking herring into the borscht ...
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>again).
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The metajoke is that, as I've learned from the
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comp.arch crowd, it's all turtles anyway. That
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is, *no* chips actually run the instruction sets
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they present to their consumers; they all emulate,
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even, or perhaps especially, including Intel's
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latest mass-market offerings. Maybe we're just a
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tweaked microcode store away from the Python chip
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now, but it doesn't matter.
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--
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Cameron Laird http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/home.html
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claird at NeoSoft.com +1 281 996 8546 FAX
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