Unix from Lispm. [was Symbolics prices (not only in Europe)]

[DE@PHOENIX.SCH.Symbolics.COM (Doug Evans)]

    Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1991 04:19 PDT
    From: p2@porter.asl.dialnet.symbolics.com (Peter Paine)

	 Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1991 21:44-0000
	 From: Reti@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM (Kalman Reti)

	 [...]

	 (My facetious suggestion of porting Unix to run under Genera would allow for
	 solve the Unix-system part of the problem.  This isn't as bad an idea as it
	 sounds; when we ported several VLSI tools to the Symbolics C the type-checking
	 found several unitialized variable-style bugs which would have caused wrong
	 answers on traditional architecture machines.)

    On a parallel note, my 3600 console has what looks suspiciously to a
    68000 based unix processor sleeping in it.

    What is the history behind that?

What a terrible assumption!!!  68000 series processors should NEVER be
associated with UNIX!  They should be associated with the much more
sane Macintosh computers.  (I ought to cc unix-haters on this one ;-)

Symbolics used 68000 series processors in the FEP (front end processor)
on 3600 family machines and on the original LEMO style console for the
3600.  Newer consoles use less expensive 8048 microprocessors with
on-chip PROM.

The 68000s used were not programmed in UNIX, but with a proprietary
crosscomplier called LIL (for Lisp-like Interpreter Langauage).