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From: barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin)
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Subject: Lisp machines (was Re: Memory utilization & inter-process contention)
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Date: 3 Sep 89 17:58:28 GMT
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In article <26595@winchester.mips.COM> mash@mips.COM (John Mashey) writes:
>Useful datapoints might be, now and in future:
>	a) Symbolics, Inc. history, where it seems like they're
>	geting out of hardware-design business in favor of (fine) software.
>	b) TI: Ivory chip versus SPARCs

Ivory is the name of *Symbolics's* VLSI Lisp processor.  I have good
feelings about the UX400S, their Ivory coprocessor for Sun
workstations -- if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

Barry Margolin
Thinking Machines Corp.

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