By: Michael S (already5chosen.delete@this.yahoo.com), March 23, 2021 1:58 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
RichardC (tich.delete@this.pobox.com) on March 23, 2021 12:47 pm wrote:
> Andrew Clough (someone.delete@this.somewhere.com) on March 22, 2021 4:27 pm wrote:
> > https://millcomputing.com/docs/
>
> They've been banging on about The Mill seemingly forever, without
> ever building any hardware. It's fairly nutty stuff with obvious
> problems handling any branchy code, which is pretty much the definition
> of what a "general-purpose" computer needs to be able to do well.
>
> Back around 2017 they were talking big about having a simulator and
> working on an fpga implementation. As far as I can tell absolutely
> none of that ever happened, at least in public, and it has all gone
> very quiet for 3 years or so.
>
> If it looks like a turkey, and it gobbles like a turkey ...
>
>
"The Mill = vaporware" appears to become a recurring theme of this forum.
Last time here but there were few earlier cases as well.
> Andrew Clough (someone.delete@this.somewhere.com) on March 22, 2021 4:27 pm wrote:
> > https://millcomputing.com/docs/
>
> They've been banging on about The Mill seemingly forever, without
> ever building any hardware. It's fairly nutty stuff with obvious
> problems handling any branchy code, which is pretty much the definition
> of what a "general-purpose" computer needs to be able to do well.
>
> Back around 2017 they were talking big about having a simulator and
> working on an fpga implementation. As far as I can tell absolutely
> none of that ever happened, at least in public, and it has all gone
> very quiet for 3 years or so.
>
> If it looks like a turkey, and it gobbles like a turkey ...
>
>
"The Mill = vaporware" appears to become a recurring theme of this forum.
Last time here but there were few earlier cases as well.