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From: dolf@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Dolf Grunbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Lisp Chips
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Date: 1 Sep 89 12:28:34 GMT
References: <70663@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <1989Aug26.232710.27174@utzoo.uucp> <1989Aug30.152155.9613@mentor.com> <26595@winchester.mips.COM>
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In article <26595@winchester.mips.COM> mash@mips.COM (John Mashey) writes:
 >In article <1989Aug30.152155.9613@mentor.com> plogan@mentor.com (Patrick Logan) writes:
 >>In article <1989Aug26.232710.27174@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
 >>>Take a look at the history of Lisp on Lisp machines, whose time has come
 >>>*and gone* -- those awful "C-only" RISC machines run Lisp faster than the
 >>>custom-cooked Lisp machines do.
 >>Saying that C machines run Lisp faster than Lisp machines is
 >>simplistic.
 >There are many good ideas in LISP, and more of it will filter over.

Just a short I-just-want-to-know question: is it true that the DEC-10 systems
processors were designed for an efficient Lisp implementation, and was it 
efficient ? (I once heard someone state that these processors were made with
two high-level languages as aims, one of which was Lisp, and the other I forgot
(I guess it must be FORTRAN isn't it ?)).
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