24 Jun
2007
24 Jun
'07
5:37 p.m.
ajones wrote:
Symbolics last hardware products used a sort of lisp-machine-on-a-chip
developed for use inside ATM networking gear (AT&T, maybe?). I think
that may be what the "Zora" was. Google's not being very helpful on
this one. My memory's not that good, and whatever I originally read was
apocryphal at best.
I could be wrong, but I think the NXP1000 (the final, headless
workstation) used a similar chipset after the other project fizzled.
The only relevant link I can find is
http://www.sts.tu-harburg.de/~r.f.moeller/symbolics-info/zora/zora.html
If I had to guess that's an Ivory chip running on a multibus.
The Ivory chip was the last real lisp which made it into production
hardware. That's the chip used in the XL1200 and the macintosh nubus
based machines.
-brad