On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 13:41, Lee Begg wrote: > There are open source CPUs. I know of two, the Freedom processor and the > OpenRISC 1000. > > The freedom processor is not going to be useful for quite some time. > > The OpenRISC has actually run in hardware (FPGA). It is quite a nice > processor and Linux is currently being ported to it.
Two things I can see coming of this: 1. Hardware that can be reprogrammed to run, amongst other things, Java bytecode like the last 3 ARM CPUs. 2. The need for a Java bytecode Linux. It's going to get much more interesting. Vik :v)
