Alexandre Souza wrote:
Arguing that
you can program an FPGA to look like anything you'd like
seems to me to be akin to saying that one can microprogram a 360/30
to have any old instruction set imaginable or program an emulator to
run on a DG Nova to emulate any instruction set that one cared for.
Nice question...any "big iron" implementation in FPGA? S/360? S/370?
PDP? VAX? Whatever?
As far as IBM stuff, not that I've heard of, but I don't think S/360
would be that hard to do. Even early S/370 wouldn't be that difficult.
But later S/370 (and S/360/67 probably) started getting complicated.
Peace... Sridhar