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(a)surfree.com)