APL - MCM70 from the Micro-Computer Machines. For the mid-70s this was a
truly amazing machine.
- Dimensions were about 6"x14"x24"
- microcoded APL implementation
- dual casette tape drives for mass storage
- single line 20(?) character display
- full APL implementation
MCM released several hardware based APL machines in the mid-70s. It can be
argued that a microprogrammed language implementation is not direct hardware
execution, but close enough for me.
>From a microprogramable archiectures class I took in the late 70s here's a
list of microprogrammable architectures:
B1700
Microdata 3200
Interdata 8/32
Nanodata QM-1
CDC 5600
Digital Scientific META4
Varian 73
Intel 3000
HP21MX
The above list is from "Microprogrammable Computer Architectures" by
Salisbury (1976).
The IBM 5100 ran APL and BASIC, but I know it did not implement APL in
microcode, don't know about BASIC.
"Computers in the 1980s" by Turn (1974) also has a brief, but interesting,
take on HLL hardware.
Has the SYMBOL machine machine been mentioned? (There's one in on display at
the Computer Museum History Center in Mtn. View CA.).
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Scott Guthery
> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 1:20 PM
> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: HLL Computers
>
>
> I'm making a list of the processors and computers
> that in one way or another tried to directly execute
> a high-level programming language. Here's what I have
> so far.
>
> Algol60 - Burroughs 5500
> Pascal P-Code - Western Digital Pascal Microengine, Perq
> Lisp - Symbolics, Lisp Machine, and many others
> Ada - Intel 432
> Java - picoJava
> Modula M-Code - Lilith
>
> Additions and corrections are greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Cheers, Scott
>
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