HISTORY / 1978

MIT Lisp machines and CADR

MIT built computers designed to run Lisp efficiently. The CADR combined specialized hardware with an interactive software environment for developing and debugging programs.

What happened next

The Lisp machine became a base for commercial workstations. Its integrated environment, memory management and support for symbolic programs remain useful subjects in programming-system design.

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