@kenshirriff wow. I didn't know iNTEL made this and...

@kenshirriff wow. I didn't know iNTEL made this and it fits neatly into my fantasy world where one could increase processing power by adding hardware to the existing hardware. You could upgrade without having to throw out the old stuff immediately. I know the nuance would kill such a thing but a person can dream.

I'm wondering if this was inspired by LISP?

Thanks for sharing

Like 20 Apr 2023 at 16:02 | Wall-to-wall | Open on infosec.exchange

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Ken Shirriff replied to Robert Hollingshead :donor:

@0xF21D I don't think there was any Lisp influence on the iAPX 432. It was inspired by object-oriented languages, specifically Ada.

20 Apr 2023 at 16:13 | Open on oldbytes.space

Kristofer Younger replied to Ken

@kenshirriff @0xF21D my 432 had the Ada compiler. it took hours to compile “hello.adb”. had access to it at Purdue. it was 1983 i think. my summer job was learning Green Ada, at Honeywell SRC.

20 Apr 2023 at 23:10 | Open on me.dm

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