[EMAIL PROTECTED], mused, then expounded: > > I have long had a fantasy of sorts of someone coming out with a > generic processor taht could be reconfigured on the fly -- of coming > up with my own instruction set for it, so a custom gcc backend could > produce code for it, and it would be immune to all malware which > depends on the specific instruction set. Even, at moments, thinking > of having permutations of the instructions every few months, just to > ad variety to things. I had brief moments of interest in Transmeta > for just that reason, but they quickly disappeared. >
Well, not generic, but in the same spirit, it can plug into an AMD 940 pin cpu socket. And one has two vendors to choose from - http://www.drccomputer.com/ http://www.xtremedatainc.com/ Not exactly cheap to get into, and it doesn't use gcc as it's VHDL. So, maybe too restrictive, but it's re-configurable and 1 or more,, up to 7 can theoretically be used in an 8 socket AMD based platform. Interestingly enough, both companies development stations come with Linux as the os. Bob - -- [email protected] mailing list
