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I quickly skimmed the paper but did not see any references to the Symbolics LISP machine CPUs - which as I understand it had programmable or reconfigurable microcode, which supported the LISP machine features. Even device drivers could be written in Lisp.



AFAIK, this assumes a purely functional language, namely Haskell. I'm not sure about the variant of Lisp used in the LISP Machines, but it's probably rather different (eg. uses assignment, etc).




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