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| | Lisp machine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Lisp machines were general-purpose computers designed (usually through hardware support) to efficiently run Lisp as their main software language. | | | A screenshot of the sophisticated debugger on a Symbolics MacIvory machine. | | | The Xerox Lisp Machine was well known for its advanced development environment, for its early graphical user interface and for novel applications like NoteCards (one of the first Hypertext applications). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine
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| | Lisp Machine Lisp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Lisp Machine Lisp is a dialect of the Lisp programming language, a direct descendant of Maclisp, and was initially developed in the mid to late 1970s as the systems programming language for the MIT Lisp machines. | | | Lisp Machines, Inc. and later Texas Instruments would share a common code base, but their dialect of Lisp Machine Lisp would differ from the version maintained at the MIT AI Lab by Richard Stallman and others. | | | Lisp Machine Lisp itself branched into 3 dialects. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_Machine_Lisp
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| | A Brief History of Lisp Machines |
| | Lisp, as the default AI language, was also an important research vehicle for new computer languages, networking, display technology and so on. | | | Everyone "knows" that lisp was the language of choice for Artificial Intelligence research, but a big part of AI research is about paradigms for representing knowledge, expressing algorithms, man-machine communication, and machine-to-machine communication: In short, how to use computers in general. | | | The CADR aka MIT Lisp Machine aka Greenblatt Lisp Machine |
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http://www.andromeda.com/people/ddyer/lisp
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| | The Lisp Machine |
| | Many of the software technologies that were considered research areas when the Lisp Machine was introduced have been codified to the point that they are amenable to implementations using commodity software and hardware. | | | The "Lisp Machine", a custom computer work-station designed specifically for the execution of Lisp, has been an important part of the Lisp tradition for 20 years. | | | At the time, Lisp Machines were the only computer work-station of significant power and the only economic solution to efficiently developing and running Lisp programs. |
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http://pt.withy.org/publications/LispM.html
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| | [2-20] What is a "Lisp Machine" (LISPM)? |
| | A Lisp machine (or LISPM) is a computer which has been optimized to run lisp efficiently and provide a good environment for programming in it. | | | The original Lisp machines were implemented at MIT, with spinoffs as LMI (defunct) and Symbolics (bankrupt). | | | Pleszkun and Thazhuthaveetil, "The Architecture of Lisp Machines", IEEE Computer, March 1987. |
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http://www.faqs.org/faqs/lisp-faq/part2/section-20.html
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| | Emergent Technologies Inc. -- LMI K-Machine |
| | Analysis of the storage on existing Lisp Machines indicated that only about 20 percent of the storage was actually stored in lists (the rest being vectors, structures, or classes), and that about 20 percent of the lists benefited from CDR codes. | | | The LMI K-machine was the last processor designed and built by Lisp Machine, Inc. The K-machine was designed in late 1985 - early 1986 and the first instructions were executed December 31, 1986. | | | We therefore designed the machine to optimize the patters of usage found in code written by non-expert users. |
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http://fare.tunes.org/tmp/emergent/kmachine.htm
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| | Lisp Books and Information |
| | Lisp Machines were general-purpose computers designed (usually through hardware support) to efficiently run Lisp as their main software language. | | | Zmacs was an Emacs precursor found on the MIT CADR and Symbolics Lisp machines. | | | Scheme is a dialect of Lisp used a lot in computer science education. |
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http://www.lispmachine.net
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| | A few things I know about LISP Machines |
| | TI Explorer machine family (including MicroExplorer and Explorer II) was an evolution originally based on the LMI branch of MIT Lisp Machines. | | | LISP Machines of old (36xx, etc) used to control the bare hardware in LISP as well as they did manipulate AI concepts, so as to optimize paging performance. | | | The second MIT Lisp Machine, appropriately named CADR, is on display at the MIT museum. |
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http://fare.tunes.org/LispM.html
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| | ALU: Common Lisp Implementations |
| | Symbolics was formed to commercialize the MIT Lisp Machine (also called the CADR), a machine with special hardware for running Lisp that was one of the first workstations, and among the first computers to use a mouse, have a windowing system and have built in networking. | | | Corman Lisp was designed for high performance, with a generational garbage collector, foreign function interface, optimizing compiler, built in x86 assembler, and the ability to create Win32 applications. | | | CLOE (Common Lisp Operating Environment) is a cross-development environment for IBM PCs (MSDOS) and Symbolics Genera. |
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http://www.alu.org/table/systems.htm
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| | Brief Lisp History |
| | The Lisp machine concept was developed in the late 1960's. | | | One response to the address space problem was the Lisp Machine, a special-purpose computer designed to run Lisp programs. | | | In 1980 Symbolics and LMI were developing Lisp Machine Lisp; stock-hardware implementation groups were developing NIL, Franz Lisp, and PSL; Xerox was developing Interlisp; and the SPICE project at CMU was developing a MacLisp-like dialect of Lisp called SpiceLisp. |
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http://www.lisp.org/table/Lisp-History.html
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| | FAQ: Lisp Frequently Asked Questions 1/7 [Monthly posting] |
| | The book assumes no prior knowledge of Lisp or AI and is a suitable textbook for students in Cognitive Science, Computer Science and other disciplines taking courses in Lisp or AI programming as well as being invaluable for professional programmers who are learning Lisp for developing AI applications. | | | Discussion of AI programs implemented in Lisp should sometimes be cross-posted to the newsgroup comp.ai. | | | If you are a novice Lisp programmer, you should use type declarations sparingly, as there may be no checking to see if the declarations are correct, and optimized code can be harder to debug. |
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http://www.faqs.org/faqs/lisp-faq/part1
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| | Common Lisp |
| | CMU CL is a free, high-quality ANSI Common Lisp system for Unix workstations originally developed at the School of Computer Science of Carnegie Mellon University. | | | Specifically, it is an implementation, in Lisp, of the Java serializing ObjectStream protocol that supports the (de)serialization of Java objects into and from appropriately mapped Lisp objects. | | | CMU/CL is a Common Lisp package for reading binary files to symbolic form. |
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http://cbbrowne.com/info/commonlisp.html
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| | The E3 Project |
| | The E3 Project aims to develop a portable software emulator of the TI Explorer II Lisp machine. | | | The principal goal of the E3 Project is to develop a software emulation of the macrocode executor that ran on all versions of the Explorer (with a few changes from model to model). | | | LMI was one of two companies (the other was Symbolics) spun off from the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in order to develop workstations descending from the MIT CONS and CADR, computers which ran an operating system and environment written entirely in Lisp. |
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http://www.unlambda.com/lispm
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| | Worse Is Better |
| | Today’s Lisp environments are equal to the very best Lisp machine environments in the 1970s. | | | Common Lisp is about to be standardized by ANSI, has good performance, is surrounded with good environments, and has good integration with other languages and software. | | | In terms of performance, anyone using a Common Lisp today on almost any computer can expect better performance than could be obtained on single-user PDP-10s or on single-user Lisp machines of mid-1980s vintage. |
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| | ACM Sigplan Notices 27, 8 (Aug. 1992), 89-98. |
| | Hash consing was invented by Ershov for the detection of common subexpressions in a compiler [Ershov58] and popularized by Goto for use in a Lisp-based symbolic algebra systems [Goto74] [Goto76] [Goto80]. | | | The natural metaphor for Linear Lisp is quantum mechanics, in which objects interact, and every interaction with an object--including reading--affects the object. | | | Linear Lisp is an ideal environment for symbolic algebra, since it provides the efficiencies of sharing, including fast copying and fast equality checking [Goto76], without the problems. |
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http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/LinearLisp.html#foot1
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| | The Seasonal Lisp Machine |
| | The fall of 1996 was a busy time for the Lisp Machine. | | | In late 1996, the Lisp Machine was labeled to be moved with us to Duncan Hall. | | | Finally, one more look at the complete machine: |
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http://www.cs.brown.edu/research/plt/LispM
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| | Retrocomputing - MIT CADR Lisp Machines |
| | After a long and interesting search I uncovered a set of 9-track tapes which appear to be a snapshot of the MIT CADR Lisp machine source code from around 1980. | | | This is not the final source code and not the last source release I will make. | | | Tar file of the tape images, extracted files and extract software, 71Mbytes |
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http://www.heeltoe.com/retro/mit/mit_cadr_lmss.html
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| | Lemonodor: Lisp Machine Video |
| | Though from what I understand the software that has been written for Tron made it later onto the Lisp Machine and probably has been a start for the 3d graphics software from Symbolics. | | | The window is displayed via X11 to a Mac G4, where the interaction has been recorded. | | | It seems that (only) a part of the animations were done in Lisp and not on a Lisp Machine. |
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http://lemonodor.com/archives/000103.html
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| | Retrocomputing - MIT CADR Lisp Machines |
| | You can find the MIT CADR Lisp Machine Source code here. | | | You can also make a local file system in the FILE partition with | | | The original lisp code in zwei, on the screen! |
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http://www.unlambda.com/cadr/index.html
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| | Some AI Koans |
| | These are some of the funniest examples of a genre of jokes told at the MIT AI Lab about various noted hackers. | | | A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. | | | Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: âYou cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong. |
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http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/koans.html
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| | Technorati Tag: lispmachine |
| | This is an essay written a while ago (1986 or so) by Richard M Stallman (RMS), about his experiences at the MIT AI Lab, and the story of the Lisp... | | | The Lisp Machine Wars January 5th, 2006 by jao This is an essay written a while ago (1986 or so) by Richard M Stallman (RMS), about his experiences at... | | | January 6th, 2006 by jao Nowadays, Lisp Machines are legendary stuff. |
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