Lisp, the machine language. Was Re: Hallelujah!

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
Date: Sun Apr 4 11:12:49 1999

They are micro-coded to run LISP, sorta like the WD P-Engine machines run
PASCAL.
Some of the more famous ones came from LMI (Lisp Machine Inc) and ran in
the MIT AI lab. Several people on the list own one or more (but they can be
largish machines, like that stops anyone here :-)

--Chuck


At 10:42 AM 4/4/99 -0400, you wrote:
>On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Buck Savage wrote:
>
>>my money, it is an assembly language for an abstract computer. Sure, it
>
>I've seen some people on this list refer to certain computers as 'LISP
>machines'. What is the meaning of that? Is that like UNIX is a 'C
>machine'?
>
> --Max Eskin (max82_at_surfree.com)
>
Received on Sun Apr 04 1999 - 11:12:49 BST