Part 2: <a href="http://www.cpushack.com/2013/03/02/chuck-moore-part-2-from-space-to-greenarrays/" rel="nofollow">http://www.cpushack.com/2013/03/02/chuck-moore-part-2-from-s...</a>
Anyone know how Chuck is doing these days? His site hasn't been updated since 2013, but I did see him in an interview 2 or 3 years ago where he seemed well.
> In 1983 Chuck founded Novix, a company whose goal was to design a processor that was optimal for use with FORTH, a true stack processor.<p>C started as a language that was designed to take advantage of an existing processor to produce fast code. That has worked spectacularly.<p>It seems, however, going the other way by first designing a language and then making a processor to make it fast does not work out. Other examples are the Lisp Machines and Java Processors.
Has anybody done a study of dependencies of computations in real programs and compared the efficiency of a stack representation and a register representation?
It's too bad you can't get a single chip conveniently soldered on a schmartboard ready to be used anymore [1].<p>That was a great deal for only 35$.<p>The only option now is to buy the evaluation board for close to 500$ or 10 chips for 200$ and do QFN soldering which can be a PITA.<p>[1] <a href="https://schmartboard.com/schmartboard-ez-qfn-88-pins-0-4mm-pitch-2-x-2-grid-bundled-with-a-greenarrays-ga144-ic-202-0048-02/" rel="nofollow">https://schmartboard.com/schmartboard-ez-qfn-88-pins-0-4mm-p...</a>