Symbolics

From: Shawn T. Rutledge <rutledge_at_cx47646-a.phnx1.az.home.com>
Date: Tue Feb 29 16:14:31 2000

On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 08:40:31PM -0500, r. 'bear' stricklin wrote:
> "The power, speed, and flexibility of Symbolics processing machines result
> from optimizing the hardware design to match the software environment.
> Some of the special architecture features include:
>
> Tagged architecture

Not sure what that is?

> Multiple caches
> Hardware stack management

So I guess maybe that wasn't taken for granted back then huh?

> Pipelined instruction cycles
> Parallel processing

Hmmm.

> Hardware assisted garbage collection

Now that'd still be cutting-edge if implemented on a modern processor...
Just saw a slashdot article about it that pointed here...
http://csl.cs.iit.edu/~dmm/

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