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by bitwize 748 days ago
Except conventional CPUs aren't really glorified PDP-11s, except in the sense that they're Von Neumann machines with untagged memory; and the conventional CPUs started lapping the Lisp machines around the mid-80s, when 32-bit microprocessors started becoming common and Lisp compiler technology evolved to better support them.

And even the "untagged memory" bit might not hold; with things like CHERI, a LispM style architecture is due for a major comeback.

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Hi I think is in the hypothesis (I'm not sure) of that we have edition made by the pdp 11 keyboard developer and tooling that's old and design whiout introspection in mind showcase in this video, the video is really cool but little bit long

https://youtu.be/8Ab3ArE8W3s?si=FdwCbmRnU1gJIXJx

Or SPARC ADI and ARM MTE, already around, only Intel and AMD keep failing to deliver something that actually works, e.g. iAPX 432 and MPX.