> I'm sure at this point someone could put together a 36-bit machine > out of FPGAs that ran fast enough to be used as a low-volume web > server, and there are certainly heterogeneity advantages to such a > platform. Maybe someone who knows enough about such things should > actually do this :-)
If I had a source of FPGAs that were decently documented - in particular, that didn't demand use of a vendor-provided opaque binary blob to generate the programming data, I'd probably be doing that (among other things) already. (Such things may well already exist, but I haven't found them. Not that I've put all _that_ much effort into looking; finding needles in haystacks is not exactly my forte - unless the needles are bugs and the haystacks are code.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B