Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!mit-eddie!rpk From: rpk@mit-eddie.UUCP (Robert Krajewski) Newsgroups: net.arch Subject: Lisp Machines as a stack machine Message-ID: <1389@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Fri, 2-Mar-84 00:53:54 EST Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.1389 Posted: Fri Mar 2 00:53:54 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 3-Mar-84 09:51:39 EST Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 16 One class of stack machines was developed at MIT: the Lisp Machine. Although the hardware of the processor is not totally stack-oriented, there is a stack cache (known as the PDL buffer), and the microcode supplies the (mostly) stack-oriented instructions. The first machine was CONS; then came the CADR (of which there are quite a few at MIT and other places); now there are the 3600 (from Symbolics) and the Lambda (from LMI). Also, there is a computer course here that explores a hypothetical stack machine which could, in theory, be built. I don't think anyone has ever tried. -- ``Bob'' (Robert P. Krajewski) ARPA: RpK@MC MIT Local: RpK@OZ UUCP: genradbo!miteddie!rpk or genradbo!miteddie!mitvax!rpk