Very interesting... Thank you, BOB... ;)

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On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 16:56, Bob Blick <bobblick@ftml.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:29 -0300, "RC" wrote:
> > Really? Could you share some references, please? I'm very curious now..=
..
>
> When I read the first released description of it several years ago it
> struck me that way, and when I bumped into Chip Gracey later and asked
> him about it, I remember him telling me that the development of it
> sprung from FPGAs and SX microcontrollers. Since the speed he was
> running it at couldn't support running directly from internal eeprom or
> flash, plus the added expense, and needing durability of many
> reprogramming cycles, it ended up being even more like the FPGAs it was
> initially breadboarded from. Yes, it's a microprocessor, but its boot
> process looks a lot like an FPGA.
>
> Bob
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