Symbolics

From: Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner <spc_at_armigeron.com>
Date: Tue Feb 29 16:39:19 2000

It was thus said that the Great Shawn T. Rutledge once stated:
>
> 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?

  Each memory cell has a tag associated with it telling how to interpret the
contents---this cell has an integer, this one is a pointer to a string, this
one a floating point number, this is a pointer to a cons cell.

  Tagged memory in other words.

  -spc (The Intel 432 was a tagged architecture---meant for OOP programming
        but it never caught on ... )
Received on Tue Feb 29 2000 - 16:39:19 GMT