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Spur – RISC IV: The Lisp Multiprocessor Workstation
The hugely ambitious 'Symbolic Processing Using RISC' project from UC Berkeley
The complex hardware features included in SPUR either facilitate parallel processing (for example, hardware-based cache consistency) or make large contributions to performance … Ten superminicomputer processors for your desk will come packaged as a VLSI workstation called SPUR, once the team at UC Berkeley finds a partner to transfer their upcoming prototype to industry. From the perspective of 2024 though, I think that the most appropriate reaction is to marvel at the ambition of the UC Berkeley team, commercially successful or not, and to be equally impressed by how relevant (with the possible exception of LISP) the ideas in SPUR would become decades later.
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