Lisp machine
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Lisp machines are general-purpose computers designed to efficiently run Lisp as their main software and programming language, usually via hardware support. They are an example of a high-level language
A Knight machine preserved in the MIT Museum
Symbolics 3640 Lisp machine
Symbolics 3620 (left) and LMI Lambda Lisp machines
AI winter
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In the history of artificial intelligence, an AI winter is a period of reduced funding and interest in AI research. The field has experienced several hype cycles, followed by disappointment and critic
Lisp machine
…In Germany Siemens designed the RISC-based Lisp co-processor COLIBRI. With the onset of an AI winter and the early beginnings of the microcomputer revolution, which would sweep away the minicomputer and workstation makers, cheaper desktop PCs soon could…
Briefing for US Vice President Gerald Ford in 1973 on the junction-grammar-based computer translation model