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I read a short paper at their booth (I didn't keep the paper, so I'm doing
this from memory), it described a microcoded machine which implements a
Lisp interpreter (!?), directly.  I don't recall the technology underlying
the hardware as being unusual (I seem to recall something like 2 micron
CMOS).

It included a very few benchmarks comparing other (compiled) Lisp
implementations (in particular, D-machines), versus their microcoded
interpreter.  I recall some of their benchmarks were "relatively good"
(some were better than compiled Interlisp-on-D-machine).  Since the paper
didn't include compiled benchmarks for their machine, could it be that
there IS NO low-level instruction set to compile into?

So assuming the paper is describing the ELIS, it seems to be a rather
unusual lisp machine.  I seem to recall pricing in the very low 10s of
thousands....

-Frank.