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Subject: Re: Data Stack in the Symbolics 3600
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Date: Wed, 13-Aug-86 13:53:00 EDT
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You should check out the "Symbolics Technical Summary", which is
available from your local Symbolics sales office.  It contains very
well-written descriptions of the various hardware components of the
3600 family machines.  

In addition, David Moon (who designed the garbage collection hardware)
has two interesting papers that go into much more detail:

  David A. Moon, "Garbage Collection in a Large Lisp System",
	Proceedings 1984 ACM Symposium on Lisp and Functional
	Programming, pp 235-246

  David A. Moon, "Architecture of the Symbolics 3600", Proceedings
	12th Annual Symposium on Computer Architecture, pp. 76-83
	(1985).

--Hal Stern
  Princeton University
  {ihnp4, seismo, allegra}!princeton!stern