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Any ideas what Ivory's "embedded applications" could have been?

• mepian 3y ago
  The Spaceborne VHSIC multiprocessor for space station environments: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19890010467/downloads/19890010467.pdf https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19890010467/downloads/19...
  • varjag 3y ago
    Great find! Also found this: https://techmonitor.ai/technology/symbolics_outlines_its_plans_and_its_hopes_for_the_new_ivory_lisp_chip https://techmonitor.ai/technology/symbolics_outlines_its_pla... It does mention military applications but by embedded they apparently meant co-hosting it in a general purpose workstation as a coprocessor.
• lispm 3y ago
  Genera embedded in Macs and SUNs, running on the MacIvory and UX boards. For example the Symbolics graphics suite was available on Macs, running on the MacIvory board and a NuVista graphics board. There were also talks to expand this to other hardware like Sony News. See also "Zora" : https://www.ifis.uni-luebeck.de/~moeller/symbolics-info/zora/zora.html https://www.ifis.uni-luebeck.de/~moeller/symbolics-info/zora... IIRC, that was used in an ATM switch, with network switch software running on top of Minima, "a real-time Lisp run-time environment and operating system for the Ivory processor".
  • mepian 3y ago
    The latter was designed for AT&T iirc.
    • lispm 3y ago
      Later at Lucent ported to Allegro CL and LispWorks.