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On Monday, 25 September 2023 at 02:01:59 UTC+1, Hugh Aguilar wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 9, 2021 at 11:32:00 PM UTC-7, John Hart wrote:
> > On Tuesday, November 9, 2021 at 1:55:46 PM UTC-7, Ilya Tarasov wrote:
> > > How many Forth CPUs do you plan to design? How many do you need?
> > This will be the last one. ...
> > Our present 16bit system has a USB interface, a local network,
> > a port for wireless, a serial port for
> > miscellaneous I/O, two pwm outputs, four encoder inputs, and outputs
> > to control four axis of motion.
> >
> > The 32bit processor will enable us to increase the number of axis to 16,
> > make the program space
> > 60 times bigger, and execute code ten times faster, without
changing the hardware.
> About a month ago I received an email that said this:
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> From my experience on using the ispLSI, I doubt that the isp1048
> can implement any kind of CPU.
> I guess that the MiniForth is running on i8032 CPU. Am I right?
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> This is a common belief, that it is impossible to implement a processor
> on the Lattice isp1048 PLD. Typically this assertion is followed by
> the unbeliever explaining that he tried to do so, but that turkey didn`t fly.
> Having a job interviewer believe that I`m telling a tall tale means that
> I won`t get the job!
>
> I think that Tom Hart and John Hart were fools to refuse to admit
> that I wrote MFX for the MiniForth, saying that I am lying about this
> and that I was never anything more than a maintenance programmer for
> MFX that was written by John Hart and Steve Brault before I showed up.
>
> When people say that the MiniForth was impossible due to the
> Lattice isp1048 PLD being too limited to support a processor,
> there are only two witnesses to the development of the MiniForth
> who can attest that the MiniForth was successfully built.
> These two witnesses are myself and Steve Brault.
> When Testra accuses me of lying about writing MFX, Testra undermines
> my credibility in attesting that the MiniForth was successfully built.
> This leaves only Steve Brault to attest to the existence of the MiniForth.
>
> Steve Brault seems to be quite absent in this thread attacking me.
> If he were a loyal Testra employee he would have joined in on Tom Hart`s
> attack on me, to prove his loyalty to Tom Hart (and keep his job).
> He hasn`t done so. This presumably means that he quit Testra sometime
> after I quit Testra, likely for the same reason (low pay, although he was
> likely making two or three times what I made). This means that there are
> no witnesses remaining to attest that the MiniForth actually existed.
> This is why people feel comfortable in saying that the MiniForth
> was not a processor but was just an i8032 program --- there is nobody
> to contradict this accusation that the MiniForth is a tall tale.
It is all in the thread I started at the time to clarify what happened,
and many people gave their opinion.
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.forth/c/wydQr643gX0
If this went through to production, many many customers would own it now.
Please dump your shit elsewhere.
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