RTX2010 [SEP] manufacturer
RTX2010
The RTX2010 manufactured by Intersil is a radiation hardened stack machine microprocessor which has been used in numerous spacecraft.
Characteristics.
It is a two-stack machine, each stack 256 words deep, that supports direct execution of Forth. Subroutine calls and returns only take one processor cycle and it also has a very low and consistent interrupt latency of only four processor cycles, which lends it well to realtime applications.
History.
In 1983, Chuck Moore implemented a processor for his programming language Forth as a
last quarter of the century".
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