Lisp, the machine language. Was Re: Hallelujah!

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Sun Apr 4 18:19:38 1999

<C-machines (and I wouldn't class Unix as being one, although Unix would
<ran rather well _on_ one) have existed as well. They're machines where
<the instruction set is optimised for running C (so things like pointer
<indirection, particular loop structures, etc are machine
<instructions/operations).

the PDP-11 instruction set was the near ideal C machine due to it's
available addressing modes.

Allison
Received on Sun Apr 04 1999 - 18:19:38 BST