Dave Dyer's "A Brief History of Lisp Machines" at
http://www.andromeda.com/people/ddyer/lisp/
mentions that Symbolics planned a new Lisp machine called Sunstone.
I haven't been able to find any information about it. Anyone know
any details?
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(hearsay follows)
Sunstone was designed by Ron Lebel's group at the Symbolics Westwood
office. It was a RISC-like processor that was to be released shortly
after the Ivory. However, the project was canceled well before it
taped out. There are a few people out there who have an ISA manual
for the Sunstone; I have been trying for quite some time to get my
hands on this document.
Carl Shapiro wrote:
> (hearsay follows)
>
> Sunstone was designed by Ron Lebel's group at the Symbolics Westwood
> office. It was a RISC-like processor that was to be released shortly
> after the Ivory. However, the project was canceled well before it
> taped out.
Actually, we got laid off the day we were supposed to tape out. NREs
were pretty expensive.
> There are a few people out there who have an ISA manual
> for the Sunstone; I have been trying for quite some time to get my
> hands on this document.
Chris Vogt <ยทยทยทยท@cox.net> writes:
> Actually, we got laid off the day we were supposed to tape out. NREs
> were pretty expensive.
It's worse today. ASIC NRE at $1M is not uncommon today. However, the
design/verification cost for a chip of that level of complexity is
probably more.
Petter
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