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From: hrp@cray.UUCP (Hal Peterson)
Newsgroups: net.lang.forth
Subject: Re: SPECIAL FIGIL POSTING
Message-ID: <293@cray.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 16:24:58 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 11 16:24:58 1985
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In the newsletter contained in the above posting, Richard Secrist
refers to the Novix NC4000 as:

>  ... the first  chip
>  which directly implements a high-level computer language in silicon.

Though I'm not certain, I believe a group at MIT developed a chip which
directly implemented SCHEME (yet another LISP dialect) in silicon, and
they did it in 1980, give or take a couple of years.  I know that Guy
Steele, currently of Tartan Labs, was in on the project, and I think
that Gerry Sussman, an MIT professor, was there too.  What I'm not
sure of is whether it was a direct or microcoded implementation.  Anybody
out there know?  Anybody care?
-- 
Hal Peterson / Cray Research / 1440 Northland Dr. / Mendota Hts, MN  55120
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