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- From: jcooley@world.std.com (John Cooley)
- Subject: Symbolics & LISP Machines
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- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 22:28:51 GMT
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- > From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
- > Subject: LISP Machine
- >
- > Howdy! We are about to embark on a project to study associative
- > memory schemes, and were wondering if anybody knew where we might be able
- > to find some papers or books on the LISP machine..? Our Local Library's
- > CD ROMs or Computers couldn't find anything on it.
-
- Marc, you may want to look up a Massachusetts based company called "Symbolics".
-
- A lot of what I know about them is quite old. I don't know what they're doing
- today but here's a quick synopsys of what they've done:
-
- It was founded by some MIT LISP gurus and practically every piece of code
- written in that company was in LISP. (And I mean everything! mailers, editors,
- file managers, - you name it, they've probably done it in LISP.)
-
- They even wrote, in LISP, their own complete software package to do full
- custom ASIC design! It was called NS (which stands for New Schema) and I
- heard noises that Analog Devices bought it from them years ago (because at the
- time there wasn't much offered on the software for ASIC design.) Apparently,
- for it's time, NS was quite an advanced set of tools to design with.
-
- They also used to make and sell their own hardware that was optimised to run
- LISP code as efficiently as LISP code can be run. I remember the name
- "LISP BOOM" for some reason.
- - John Cooley
- ESNUG Moderator
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