rpk@mit-eddie.UUCP (Robert Krajewski) (03/02/84)
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