There is no reason you couldn't take every single deterministic, P
algorithm in the standard C++ libraries and implement it as hardware.
Most programs would then be mostly written in assembly language, with
constructions like
binarysearch[sorted_array x, search_target y] replacing add
Jonathan Standley wrote:
That approach went out with the introduction of the 4004.
Imagine a motherboard that acted as the physical layer for a
TCP/IP-based mesh network.
TCP/IP is a bit too heavy...
I heard of a system once that used ATM as its bus protocol... Today
there is 3GIO and
As I said (maybe you read what I had written as a joke) reconfigurable
logic is your best choice. It's almost as good as custom hardware. Even
though its pricey, you only have to buy it once and simply upload new
designs to it.
no, I didn't take it as a joke. I know FPGA's and such are the
Ed Helfin wrote:
It's been some time
since I looked at this, but I believe my conclusion was that it wasn't all
that reliable, I.e. low % accuracy for correct POS identification?, etc. I
don't know if this gets you where you want to go, but it might be worth
looking at.
I've looked at a
Jonathan Standley wrote:
Dedicated purpose hardware provides task specific performance orders of
magnitude higher than that of a general purpose CPU. And task-specific
hardware need not be inordinately expensive. Look at graphics and
sound boards as an example of this.
There is no reason
