What are you Rip Van Winkle ?? Where have you been in the last decade and a half where the whole DSP world became dominated with VLIW architectures - TI's 6x, Philips (now NXP) Trimedia, Starcore, Qualcomm's QDSP.. Even in general purpose computing, Intel did a real VLIW implementation - Itanium.

Cows/Oxen have been used in this manner traditionally to crush oilseeds in India. The apparatus is called a Ghani or a Kolhu. see here : http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/T4660T/t4660t04.gif