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Subject: Re: IO again
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In article <CvtEGH.J7G@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
           richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk "Richard Tobin" writes:

> The Rekursiv wasn't even a fine machine for running Lingo - someone
> did a port to a Sun 3 that ran faster!  Why should it be any use for
> Dylan?

I know nothing about Lingo. Everything I read about the Rekursiv
concerned Lisp and Prolog. If it could do unification totally in
microcode, as Dick Pountain claimed, then it would've been impressive.
I don't know if any Lisp machine had recursive microcode. Was there
one?

I'm told that the Rekursiv was abandoned because of the cost and
performance compared to the 486. I don't know how true that is.
Also, I've read that Lingo was used by Linn on their Vax machines.

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