barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin) (09/04/89)
In article <26595@winchester.mips.COM> mash@mips.COM (John Mashey) writes: >Useful datapoints might be, now and in future: > a) Symbolics, Inc. history, where it seems like they're > geting out of hardware-design business in favor of (fine) software. > b) TI: Ivory chip versus SPARCs Ivory is the name of *Symbolics's* VLSI Lisp processor. I have good feelings about the UX400S, their Ivory coprocessor for Sun workstations -- if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Barry Margolin Thinking Machines Corp. barmar@think.com {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar