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Article #2Re: SPECIAL FIGIL POSTING
From: Hal Peterson
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1985 21:24
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1985 21:24
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In the newsletter contained in the above posting, Richard Secrist refers to the Novix NC4000 as: > ... the first chip > which directly implements a high-level computer language in silicon. Though I'm not certain, I believe a group at MIT developed a chip which directly implemented SCHEME (yet another LISP dialect) in silicon, and they did it in 1980, give or take a couple of years. I know that Guy Steele, currently of Tartan Labs, was in on the project, and I think that Gerry Sussman, an MIT professor, was there too. What I'm not sure of is whether it was a direct or microcoded implementation. Anybody out there know? Anybody care? -- Hal Peterson / Cray Research / 1440 Northland Dr. / Mendota Hts, MN 55120 UUCP: ihnp4!cray!hrp phone: (612) 681-3085
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site cray.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!stolaf!umn-cs!cray!hrp From: hrp@cray.UUCP (Hal Peterson) Newsgroups: net.lang.forth Subject: Re: SPECIAL FIGIL POSTING Message-ID: <293@cray.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 16:24:58 EST Article-I.D.: cray.293 Posted: Mon Nov 11 16:24:58 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 18-Nov-85 06:39:09 EST References: <8511051634.AA12348@ucb-vax.berkeley.edu> Organization: Cray Research Inc., Mendota Heights, MN Lines: 16