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From: lou@aramis.rutgers.edu (Lou Steinberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: No market, etc
Message-ID: <2616@aramis.rutgers.edu>
Date: 27 Dec 87 16:06:47 GMT
References: <4851@well.UUCP>
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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In article <4851@well.UUCP> jjacobs@well.UUCP (Jeffrey Jacobs) writes:

> [...] But Lisp does not and has not influenced mainstream hardware
> development.

Do you consider the DEC-10 (and DEC-20) architecture mainstream?  How
about the SPARC (Sun-4) architecture?  Both were explicitly designed
to be good at both Fortran and Lisp.  (Of course, ideas about what
was "good for lisp" have evolved some in between those two examples.)

In particular, despite your claim that

>  Hardware tagging and type checking are not to be found outside
> of the Lisp machine world

the SPARC architecture does indeed have some hardware type tagging and
checking.  
-- 
					Lou Steinberg

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