[strangecasts]

> for an architecture that could never exist.

Interestingly, there is a real world equivalent to the TIS architecture: the GA144[1] has lots of memory-constrained Forth cores with software defined I/O between them.

[1] http://www.greenarraychips.com/

[db48x]

Or the Connection Machine, where the individual processors were arranged in a hypercube.

[qwertyuiop924]

Similar architectures could exist, but the exact one the TIS used? Not in a million years, unless somebody was explictly doing it to recreate the game IRL.

[db48x]

Ok, sure. It's only similar to architectures which have existed. I doubt there have been any serious ones which limited you to a dozen instructions at a time :)

There's nothing in the TIS-100 architecture that is unique or unheard of, just things that are left out of it.