Language-specific CPUs

[Jim Battle]

Jim Battle wrote:
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> 
> Chapter 8 of "Advances in Computer Architecture" describes the SYMBOL 
> computer, designed and built buy Fairchild Camera, and operated at Iowa 
> State.  Only one was built.  The design was started in the mid 60s.  
> Here is an excerpt:

Tonight as I was looking for something else, I found that Gordon Bell 
has an entire chapter on the SYMBOL computer, and it goes into a lot 
more detail than the other book I referenced.  As a bonus, it is online:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gbell/computer_structures_principles_and_examples/csp0505.htm