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Subject: Aiiiiigh!  (was: Lisp operators)
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Date: Mon, 9-Mar-87 11:15:25 EST
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dant@tekla.tek.com.tek.com (Dan Tilque;1893;92-789;LP=A;60sB) writes:
> It seems that on the machine where
> the language was developed (at Stanford, I think; don't know what machine)

MIT, you fool!

> there were two registers: a Current Address Register (CAR) and a Current
> Decrement Register (CDR).

The machine was some sort of IBM 7xx series.  The whole story in in
the "Lisp 1.5 Reference Manual" (or some such) written by John
McCarthy and published by the *MIT* Press.

Dale
(Grumble!  Snort!  *Stanford* weenies invent Lisp?  Hah!)
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