Getting Started in Star Lisp (1991) [pdf]

[tosh]

http://people.csail.mit.edu/bradley/cm5docs/nov06/GettingStartedinStarLisp.pdf

[mrbill]

I wonder if it would be possible to build starlisp-simulator on a modern platform and thereby "emulate" / simulate a CM...

The Wikipedia page says it was ported to CL in '01, but the links are old/dead.

EDIT: aha. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/lang/...

[jshaqaw]

CM-2 was a magnificent machine I had the honor of getting some access to in my late high school years.

[mark_l_watson → jshaqaw]

I used Star Lisp to prototype code before running it on the simpler SIMD CM-1. Good times.

[rst → mark_l_watson]

CM-2 was also SIMD, but with different hardware (in particular, it had an actual hardware FPU associated with each group of 32 bit-serial processors). CM-5 was the MIMD version (nodes were SPARCs with a custom vector processor add-on).

[IronBacon]

A somewhat related article about the rise and fall of Thinking Machines: https://www.inc.com/magazine/19950915/2622.html

[convolvatron]

star lisp and to a lesser extent c star was pretty convenient if you had a problem that looked like that. i wonder if there is a useful gpu analog.

[drhodes]

This looks like the predecessor to starlogo!