[Oberon] Non Oberon code in Oberon

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Since the unit of memory is a byte, how would this help? How would you 
store a one-bit boolean?

On 01/19/2016 03:24 PM, skulski at pas.rochester.edu wrote:
>> BOOLEAN consumes one byte
> In the FPGA world you would want BOOL to be one bit. Furthermore, you
> would want logic expressions to get translated to hardware (that is VHDL
> or Verilog) and then be compiled to HW modules that would act as
> coprocessors. Such a translation would be optional of course.
>
> It is not a pipedream because Xilinx is doing just that with their High
> Level Synthesis.
>
> I am throwing this in for an eager grad student as a worthy project. I
> think that NW once had a dream of unifying Oberon with LOLA, but it was
> too far ahead of its time.
>
> Wojtek
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> On 1/19/2016 12:41 PM, Lars O wrote:
>>    Wait, there's BOOLEAN? hmm..
> Yes, but BOOLEAN consumes one byte.
>
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