@pry You might want to look into OCCAM parallel computing, or Fredkin's BBM: http://cell-auto.com/bbm/2d/index.html

Or, imagine a OISC that is just Fractran, its one task is to hold prime encoded numbers and multiply! There's so many cool designs out there to try. I'd love to see a combinatory computer where opcodes are permutations of the combinatorics :mocking:

Or ternary! http://wiki.xxiivv.com/docs/dssp.txt

Or linear! https://plover.com/~mjd/misc/hbaker-archive/ReverseGC.html