[kip crosby] :>> a linn rekursiv (wouldn't you? ;> ) :Okay. Now, one person mentioning this is one thing, but Tony coming :back and knowing what it IS (even though it's Tony) is too much for :me. Given the name Linn and the funny spelling, I keep thinking :this is something like a turntable, but if so, why mention it here? :What is it? it's in the "great microprocessors" list, although it was a single-board computer rather than an mpu. exact details slip our memory at the moment, but the history is that the chairman of linn (yes, the company who make the turntables) wanted a computer system to replace the ageing systems already automating his production line. being something of a techie, he analysed the available systems, but none of them did what he wanted; so basically, they designed their own. what they came up with was the machine that the intel 432 should have been - the architecture of it was completely object-oriented, even down to the handle:offset-based addressing. a lot of oo mechanisms were done in hardware, there as no concept of linear address space, and the machine ran under the steam of its own language, lingo (used in at least one academic book on oo - we read it during our degree course - and afawk not related to the inferno project, although it's possible...). there was a byte article on it somewhere too (dick pountain). sorry for the vagueness. we'd recommend looking at the great cpus list for better detail. -- Communa (together) we remember... we'll see you falling you know soft spoken changes nothing to sing within her... Net-Tamer V 1.08X - Test Drive