> While we're talking about increasingly silly VAX hardware project
> ideas how about this one:

> Build a new VAX. CPU and all, I mean.

> [essentially, use a commercial RISC/MISC CPU as a microcode engine]

> The downside is that somebody has to write the code (the complexity
> not implemeneted in transistors has to go somewhere :->).  Somebody
> with a lot of time, and willing to risk insanity from trying to debug
> it all. :-)

Damn, but I wish I had more spare time.  I would *love* to sit down
with the software for that!  (Hmmm, I wonder how much vacation time I
have accumulated....)

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