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- From: grant@pentagon-gw.army.mil (Pete Grant)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.lang.lisp
- Subject: NXP1000, was Re: Symbolics & LISP machines
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.231035.19157@pentagon-gw.army.mil>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 23:10:35 GMT
- References: <Bx7GLJ.8DC@world.std.com> <CGAY.92Nov5221353@ilix.cs.uoregon.edu>
- Sender: Pete Grantt
- Organization: U.S. Army Artificial Intelligence Center, The Pentagon
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- In article <CGAY.92Nov5221353@ilix.cs.uoregon.edu> cgay@cs.uoregon.edu writes:
- >
- > 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.
- >
- >Still do. Have just recently come out with the NXP1000. I don't know
- >much about it except I believe it's a desktop machine and runs Lisp
- >pretty fast (somewhere in the range of a Sun 4 I believe, but with a
- >much better development environment). Symbolics' number is 800-394-5522.
- >
-
- NXP1000 (they started to call it "The Brick" but seem to have dropped that
- designation recently) is a Lisp processor designed to be used in conjunction
- with Suns and other machines in a networked environment. It's a complete
- CPU with its own hard disk but no monitor or keyboard. A user who has an
- X-windows terminal can logon to the NXP1000 and have a full Genera
- development system available.
-
- Of course, like other Symbolics machines, it's a single-user box but
- since it's on the net, anyone can logon to it at his/her own desk.
-
- We've had ours for a month now. It was rather unreliable at first but
- seems to work OK now. It appears to be quite fast; however, this
- appearance may be due to the ultra-quick screen IO of the Suns. I plan to
- run our "big" system on it and find out -- when I get time.
-
- Pete.
-