> >From another list (a rocketry one ! :-)  ).
> Thought people may be intertested where things MAY be going.
>
>         RM
>
> __________________________________________
>
>
> I don't know if anyone has looked at Chuck Moore's controller chip
> design but its pretty wild.  He claims he can get you the part in
> lots of 25 for $14k (and that was around a year ago).  The
> integrated system weight and power consumption are very low even at
> 60 Gips (of course a lot of that could go to waste without some
> difficult programming).  Forth is a drawback (unless you like Forth
> and I admit to having a Forth problem) or you are doing assembly
> programming anyway.
>
> http://www.colorforth.com/25x.html
>

> Wow.  Uh.... Wow.  Now, that sounds like the basis for one heck of a
> Linux box.  So, is there a C compiler in progress for this thing?
>
> If the cost per weren't prohibitively expensive (assuming $14k for
> 25, that's $560, which is too much for me to pay for a chip for
> myself.  And prices likely are higher for unit quantities) for me,
> personally, I'd say I'd get one just to experiment with :)
>
> - --Brendan
>
> > >From another list (a rocketry one ! :-)  ).
> > Thought people may be intertested where things MAY be going.
> >
> >         RM
> >
> > __________________________________________
> >
> >
> > I don't know if anyone has looked at Chuck Moore's controller chip
> > design but its pretty wild.  He claims he can get you the part in
> > lots of 25 for $14k (and that was around a year ago).  The
> > integrated system weight and power consumption are very low even at
> > 60 Gips (of course a lot of that could go to waste without some
> > difficult programming).  Forth is a drawback (unless you like Forth
> > and I admit to having a Forth problem) or you are doing assembly
> > programming anyway.
> >
> > http://www.colorforth.com/25x.html
> >
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>Alexandre Guimarães wrote:
>
>>     I wish I had some good money to spare. His way of doing processors
>> really has the potential to revolutionize many markets. The problem is that
>> he does not have the money and has some ideas that are really not
>> mainstream. Someone would have to guide his genius to make marketable parts
>> before he goes to the top of speed things. I still have hope he will suceed
>> and get us some very nice toys to play with.
>
>
>This thread has been interesting, i'm wondering if
>a number of us (piclisters) got together and put
>say $500 USD in each, could we get a "super-pic"
>made at one of the custom chip plants?? A chip that
>will be able to run our existing legacy PIC RISC
>code, but at super-high speeds??
>
>Strikes me that the PIC processor itself is a simple
>enough device, why can't we get them made to do
>1GHz etc?? They are much simpler than something like
>a Pentium, shorter distances from processor to ram
>etc, surely we can get them made with similar
>speeds? I'm sincerely curious as to how much
>that would cost total, and per unit, and the lead
>time before the group actually get the chips.