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From: ran@mit-vax.LCS.MIT.EDU (Randy Osborne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.encore
Subject: Re: Parallel Lisps on Parallel Machines
Message-ID: <4069@mit-vax.LCS.MIT.EDU>
Date: 26 Apr 88 00:26:29 GMT
References: <381@cmx.npac.syr.edu>
Reply-To: ran@mit-vax.UUCP (Randy Osborne)
Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, Cambridge
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It appears that my "previous" posting on this matter didn't get
through. Here it is again.

In article <381@cmx.npac.syr.edu> billo@cmx.npac.syr.edu (Bill O'Farrell) writes:
>Does anyone have any information on parallel lisps for parallel
>machines?

Multilisp is available from the Parallel Processing Group at
M.I.T. The present implementation is a byte-code interpreter
which runs on uniprocessor machines supporting UNIX (BSD 4.2)
and the multiprocessor Encore Multimax (and our Concert
Multiprocessor). Little work should be necessary to port the
implementation to other shared memory multiprocessors, which
like the Multimax, support UNIX.

To obtain this implementation, obtain a licence agreement
from the following address:

	Multilisp Request
	Room 205
	M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science
	545 Technology Square
	Cambridge, MA. 02139

Complete and return the agreement (no fee required) and we'll
mail you a tape (UNIX tar format, 1600bpi). (We may have to
charge for the tape if we receive too many requests.)

We're currently experimenting with a native code implementation
for the Multimax, based on the Orbit T compiler.

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Randy Osborne   ran@vx.lcs.mit.edu