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The Bath Concurrent LISP machine is a general purpose multiprocessor designed for research in symbolic computation and expert systems. The system is particularly suited to tree structured computations with dynamic data requirements and complex interactions. It accepts conventional LISP programs, performs a data flow analysis on them, and creates a compiled module in which available concurrency is exploited. This paper presents an overview of the system hardware and software and the directions in which research is proceeding.
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Marti, J., Fitch, J. (1983). The Bath Concurrent LISP machine. In: van Hulzen, J.A. (eds) Computer Algebra. EUROCAL 1983. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 162. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-12868-9_93
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