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If you find PARC interesting, and especially if you're interested in symbolic computation, I can highly recommend digging as deep as you can possibly stomach into the FGCS:

https://www.airc.aist.go.jp/aitec-icot/ICOT/HomePage.html

As a public research initiative, pretty much everything was published when the initiative was completed. PIMs are absolute engineering marvels. The ICOT had command of an army of the absolute best talent in the entire country, and unified them towards a goal of pure exploratory research with no market pressure, with all the excesses of 1980s Japan.

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FGCS: the Fifth-Generation Computing System

I was really excited about this initiative at the time, just starting my computer science undergrad degree.

Hardware that ran Prolog as close to bare metal as possible.

Thanks for the reminder. 40 years ago.