LSI Logic
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The semiconductor manufacturer that fabricated the Rekursiv's custom gate-array chips.
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Placed in Assess: 1 article(s) of evidence from 1 source(s), led by research-stage coverage, with 1 in the last 30 days. Confidence 24%. Low accumulated evidence, so it defaults conservatively pending more signal.
Evidence (1)
- 5Hacker News·7/18/2026researchThe Rekursiv: a 1980s hardware object store ahead of its time
This article revisits the Rekursiv, a custom computer built by Linn in the 1980s that enforced memory type and bounds checks in hardware, garbage-collected its own heap, and treated memory and disk as a persistent object store. The piece argues that ideas once seen as impractical have since appeared in modern Arm silicon, while the economics that helped kill the project have changed significantly.