Re:Mill Computing in 2017
by kazinator on Sunday January 15, 2017 @05:01AM
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To "execute Lisp directly" means to interpret the AST. No hardware machine does that that I know of. It can almost certainly be done, but arguably shouldn't. Interpreting the raw syntax is a bootstrapping technique to which it would seem foolish to commit a full-blown hardware implementation.
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The Scheme79 / 81 chips seems to go in that direction:
https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6334
Scheme86 https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/mhwu/scheme86/sbt.ps