Hacker News·5 min read·medium
The Computer at the Bottom of a Canal
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The article recounts the history of the 'Rekursiv,' a custom processor developed by the Scottish hi-fi company Linn in the 1980s that featured advanced object-oriented hardware capabilities. Though commercially unsuccessful at the time, its architectural concepts are now appearing in modern production silicon.
Somewhere at the bottom of the Forth and Clyde Canal , buried in the silt, there is a box of custom silicon that was right about almost everything.
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