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Article #2099Lisp machines (was Re: Memory utilization & inter-process contention)
From: Barry Margolin
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 1989 17:58
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 1989 17:58
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In article <26595@winchester.mips.COM> mash@mips.COM (John Mashey) writes:
>Useful datapoints might be, now and in future:
> a) Symbolics, Inc. history, where it seems like they're
> geting out of hardware-design business in favor of (fine) software.
> b) TI: Ivory chip versus SPARCs
Ivory is the name of *Symbolics's* VLSI Lisp processor. I have good
feelings about the UX400S, their Ivory coprocessor for Sun
workstations -- if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
Barry Margolin
Thinking Machines Corp.
barmar@think.com
{uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!think!barmar From: barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin) Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.sys.mips Subject: Lisp machines (was Re: Memory utilization & inter-process contention) Message-ID: <28783@news.Think.COM> Date: 3 Sep 89 17:58:28 GMT References: <70663@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <1989Aug26.232710.27174@utzoo.uucp> <1989Aug30.152155.9613@mentor.com> <26595@winchester.mips.COM> Sender: news@Think.COM Followup-To: comp.arch Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA Lines: 15