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Joint Design of Instruction Set and Language

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My attempts to reply to the original post are failures, perhaps because
of a semicolon in the list of groups, even after I edit it out.

Roberto Waltman wrote:
> My short list:
>    Lilith + Modula-2
>    LISP machines + LISP, of course
>    Burroughs B5000 + Algol's
>    The various Forth processors,
>    Transputers + Occam,
>    Xerox Alto?

There was an experimental project at IBM that involved running a 360/30
with custom microcode to implement APL more efficiently.

Western Digital made the Pascal MicroEngine, which directly ran the
P-code for UCSD Pascal.

I'm not sure if the KDF 9 and Algol would really count.

Peter Flass wrote:
>IBM 5100: APL.

Sorry, no.

The IBM 5100 used a nanocode language in which to implement a microcode
interpreter. Then it used microcode to interpret a subset of the IBM 360
machine language to run APL - using VS/APL. So the machine language was
not designed around APL.

John Savard
http://www.quadibloc.com/index.html

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Joint Design of Instruction Set and Language jsavard@excxn.aNOSPAMb.cdn.invalid (John Savard) - 2011-07-15 00:24 +0000
  Re: Joint Design of Instruction Set and Language nmm1@cam.ac.uk - 2011-07-15 08:36 +0100
    Re: Joint Design of Instruction Set and Language Bill Findlay <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2011-07-15 18:05 +0100
  Re: Joint Design of Instruction Set and Language anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-07-15 08:14 +0000
    Re: Joint Design of Instruction Set and Language John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> - 2011-07-15 10:32 +0000
      Re: Joint Design of Instruction Set and Language Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2011-07-15 10:18 -0400
      Re: Joint Design of Instruction Set and Language anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-07-15 16:30 +0000
        Re: Joint Design of Instruction Set and Language Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2011-07-15 14:26 -0400
    Re: Joint Design of Instruction Set and Language torbenm@diku.dk (Torben Ægidius Mogensen) - 2011-07-15 14:26 +0200
      Re: Joint Design of Instruction Set and Language Terje Mathisen <"terje.mathisen at tmsw.no"> - 2011-07-15 15:59 +0200
    Re: Joint Design of Instruction Set and Language jsavard@excxn.aNOSPAMb.cdn.invalid (John Savard) - 2011-07-15 13:48 +0000

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