Date: 13 Mar 1996 From: Andrew Haley To: Jaap van Ganswijk Cc: MISC@pisa.rockefeller.edu Subject: Re: The Hobbit > Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 09:42:22 +0100 > From: Jaap van Ganswijk > > Since you're talking about 'stack based architectures': Does anybody > know what happened to the Hobbit, which is in my opinion the best > chip architecture ever. (From the viewpoint of a compiler writer. ;-) I used to work for Eo, the only people who ever used the Hobbit AFAIK. AT&T Microelectronics decided to stop producing the chip when it became clear that nobody other than Eo was going to use it, and the Eo wasn't selling. Since then, advances in register based machines and the compilers for them have made the CRISP architecture obsolete as a platform for running C: after all, the only real reason for the Hobbit's design was the (IMHO bogus) semantics of C. Andrew.