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Ask YC: Does anyone have the full-text to "Anatomy of a Lisp Machine"?

4 points| fallintothis | 17 years ago | reply

I've been researching Lisp machines for a term paper, and have come across more citations than actual articles. Most full texts I find aren't very good at summarizing the ideas -- for instance, Tom Knight's masters thesis is interesting, but a bit too forest-for-the-trees. One citation of particular interest on account of the author:

Graham, Paul

Anatomy of a LISP machine

Artificial Intelligence Volume 37 , Issue 12 (December 1988)

Pages: 26 - 32

Year of Publication: 1988

ISSN:0004-3702

Does anyone happen to have the full-text of this? Any other reputable sources you think might be useful for someone reading up on Lisp machines -- particularly the Operating Systems they used, e.g., Genera? (Not in an attempt to offshore research to others; just thought I'd ask in case I missed the obvious classics or, as it would seem from my search thus far, if many sources exist merely as citations that I can't seem to get a hold of.)

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[+] pg|17 years ago|reply
I put it online for you at http://paulgraham.com/lib/paulgraham/lm.tex

I haven't re-read it, but I don't remember it being particularly good. This was not published in Artificial Intelligence, but in AI Expert, a popular magazine I wrote articles for to make a little extra money in grad school.

[+] fallintothis|17 years ago|reply
This was not published in Artificial Intelligence, but in AI Expert

Ah. So it was. Thanks, though!