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Intel famously tried that with the iAPX 432[0]. It design appears to have been influenced by Lisp machines but with more features and using Ada instead of Lisp.
by colejohnson66 5y ago
Intel famously tried that with the iAPX 432[0]. It design appears to have been influenced by Lisp machines but with more features and using Ada instead of Lisp. GC support still required OS support, however.
[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432
- jacquesm 5y agoOh, that's interesting, I always thought of that 432 as the 'ADA' chip, I never realized that the Lisp machine was an input to it. Makes me wonder if it would have been any good at running a slightly hardware accelerated Lisp.
- colejohnson66 5y agoI can't say for sure that Lisp machines influenced it (the ISA predates me by at least two decades), but it definitly feels to me like it was because it's an ISA build for a language.