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Symbolics had a Prolog compiler for their Lisp Machines, with optimized microcode for the processor. It also supported japanese...
by lispm 8y ago
Symbolics had a Prolog compiler for their Lisp Machines, with optimized microcode for the processor. It also supported japanese...
- YeGoblynQueenne 8y agoI'm guessing they were trying to entice the Japanese market. If I have that right, it must have all been around the time of the Fifth Generation Computer Project, which aimed to create an architecture that would run a massively parallelisable logic programming language natively. That eventually imploded and took logic programming and, I think, the whole of symbolic AI with it. I think Symbolics, selling a very expensive computer running Lisp natively, failed soon after? That must have been a brutal time to be involved in AI research.
- zeveb 8y ago> That must have been a brutal time to be involved in AI research. They don’t call it the AI Winter because it was fun!