[LispM] Lisp Machines

David Gadbois gadbois@computer.org
Tue, 06 Feb 2001 20:21:10 -0600


Francois-Rene Rideau wrote:
> 
> Symbolics, Inc.: A Failure of Heterogeneous Engineering
> (Student Project in "The Structure of Engineering Revolutions")
> http://kogs-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~moeller/symbolics-info/Symbolics.pdf

Thanks for the pointer.  The paper mentions that an extra instruction
was added to the Intel 386 architecture to facilitate garbage
collection.  Does anyone know what the instruction was?

--David Gadbois