In mid-80's, there were two major projects : 4M Dram and a Lisp CPU. The latter
one was suppose to
reduce MIT Lisp
Machine(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_%28programming_language%29) to the
present day Desktop PC. Within two years, TI was able to achieve its goals even
though the price
of the Lisp Desktop Machine was 4 to 10 times more expensive than the PC at
that
time. Then came
along OOP and faster Intel based PC. Lisp is well known as AI language, perhaps
better than OOP.
Unfortunately, Lisp CPU lacks of FPU. Even though TI had the best FPU, it can
not be incorporated
into the Lisp CPU on the same chip. Another flaw was Lisp CPU is not scalable
in term of architect/design,
So, it stuck with 32-bit while Intel CPU has FPU and is scalable.
I've thought DARPA will use LISP CPU to build Super AI computers, but they
didn't and stop financing the
project. Only a few thousands Lisp Machine(code name "Explorer") were built and
only a few survived and
the rest are in Museum.
China had been working to snatch disgruntle chinese american scientists for
years and one of them was
a Senior Member Technical Staff. He was one of the best Gas(gallium arsenide)
expert. He could not get
promoted to Fellow rank for years.
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