Announcing PilMCU, the Lisp Machine on a Chip
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Announcing PilMCU, the Lisp Machine on a Chip
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Re: Announcing PilMCU, the Lisp Machine on a Chip
#2Do you have a diagram with the design? Something to amuse people even more? ;)
Re: Announcing PilMCU, the Lisp Machine on a Chip
#3No links to the actual thing?
Re: Announcing PilMCU, the Lisp Machine on a Chip
#4I'd really like to see the full ISA, etc for the chip. A few years ago, I was doing research on building a byte code based vm after working through Peter Michaux "Scheme From Scratch" http://peter.michaux.ca/articles/scheme-from-scratch-introdu.... (I highly recommend running through his code, but do the GC earlier, it's easier to get it from the start than to try to add it.) I couldn't find anything online listing the kinds of instructions you'd want in a lisp chip.
Re: Announcing PilMCU, the Lisp Machine on a Chip
#5No links to the actual thing?
I wonder if this is related: http://picolisp.com/wiki/?home
Re: Announcing PilMCU, the Lisp Machine on a Chip
#6Do you have a diagram with the design? Something to amuse people even more? ;)
It's a Verilog design for a new chip. But it doesn't seem to be open, at least I can't find the source anywhere.
It seems they're interested in launching this is a commercial (or crowd-funded) hardware product.
Re: Announcing PilMCU, the Lisp Machine on a Chip
#7No links to the actual thing?
I wonder if this is related: http://picolisp.com/wiki/?home
That's PicoLisp, which you can apt-get install.
This is PilMCU, a hardware design which apparently runs PicoLisp.
Right now, only the design exists, not physical hardware. But you can run the design in a simulator. ...Something, something, verilog. (This is not my area of expertise.)
[Edit: the devs use the Icarus verilog compiler to provide simulations. It's available in Debian repositories.]
Re: Announcing PilMCU, the Lisp Machine on a Chip
#8I'd really like to see the full ISA, etc for the chip. A few years ago, I was doing research on building a byte code based vm after working through Peter Michaux "Scheme From Scratch" http://peter.michaux.ca/articles/scheme-from-scratch-introdu... . (I highly recommend running through his code, but do the GC earlier, it's easier to get it from the start than to try to add it.) I couldn't find anything online listing…
There are a few PDFs with the original Lisp Machine ISA, if I am not mistaken.
I will have a look when back at home.
Re: Announcing PilMCU, the Lisp Machine on a Chip
#9So this is something where the hardware is executing something that actually looks like LISP sort of like the Reduceron does with Haskell?
Re: Announcing PilMCU, the Lisp Machine on a Chip
#10Is verilog design small enough to put on an FPGA?