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From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
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Subject: Re: Lisp Machines
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Date: Thu, 16-May-85 01:33:21 EDT
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If you want information on why special hardware is extremely useful (but
not necessary) for running Lisp, see the proceedings of the various
Conferences on Lisp and Functional Programming, which were held in the
summers of 1980, 1982, and 1984.  There were papers presented at each of
these conferences on Lisp Machine architectures.  These proceedings can
be obtained from ACM Publications Service, for around $20 each.

There also have been ACM conferences on architectures for programming
languages, but I don't recall the exact name of the conferences.  I
haven't read any proceedings, but I do recall some lisp machine
designers being involved in such a conference.
-- 
    Barry Margolin
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