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‎External links: +material at Bitsavers

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Unique, being a prototype.

Jnc: Briefly describe contents of LISP Machine Progress Report

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Briefly describe contents of LISP Machine Progress Report

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The '''CONS''' machine was the prototype of the [[CADR]] [[LISP machine]], built by the [[MIT AI Lab]].

It was physically very similar to the CADR, with a [[microcode]]d [[Central Processing Unit|CPU]] implemented as a single huge [[wire-wrap]] swing-out bay mounted in the front of an [[H960 rack]]; the differences were mostly in the internal [[architecture]] of the CPU.

==External links==

* [http://bitsavers.org/pdf/mit/cadr/Greenblatt-The_LISP_Machine-1975.pdf The LISP Machine] 
* [https://tumbleweed.nu/r/lm-3/uv/paper.html LISP Machine Progress Report]

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-The '''CONS''' machine was the prototype of the [[CADR]] [[LISP machine]], built by the [[MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory|MIT AI Lab]].
+The '''CONS''' machine was the prototype of the [[CADR]] [[LISP machine]], built by the [[MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory|MIT AI Lab]]; only one was ever built, in around 1974.
 It was physically very similar to the CADR, with a [[microcode]]d [[Central Processing Unit|CPU]] implemented in a single huge [[wire-wrap]] swing-out bay mounted in the front of an [[H960 rack]]; the differences were mostly in the internal [[architecture]] of the CPU.
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 ==External links==
-* [http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/mit/cons/ CONS] - material at [[Bitsavers]]
+* [http://bitsavers.org/pdf/mit/cons/ CONS] - material at [[Bitsavers]]
-* [http://bitsavers.org/pdf/mit/cadr/Greenblatt-The_LISP_Machine-1975.pdf The LISP Machine]
+** Richard Greenblatt, [https://bitsavers.org/pdf/mit/cons/TheLispMachine_Nov74.pdf The LISP Machine], MIT AI Lab Working paper 79, November, 1974 - overview of the hardware and low-level software
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-* [http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/mit/cons/CONS_Nov1974.pdf CONS]
+* LISP Machine Group, [https://tumbleweed.nu/r/lm-3/uv/paper.html LISP Machine Progress Report], MIT AI Lab Memo 444, August 1977 - contains a fair amount of information about the then-working CONS machine <!-- https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA062178.pdf -->
 [[Category: Workstations]]
 [[Category: Unique Computers]]

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	* [http://bitsavers.org/pdf/mit/cadr/Greenblatt-The_LISP_Machine-1975.pdf The LISP Machine] <!-- https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/41114/AI_WP_079.pdf -->		* [http://bitsavers.org/pdf/mit/cadr/Greenblatt-The_LISP_Machine-1975.pdf The LISP Machine] <!-- https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/41114/AI_WP_079.pdf -->
		+	* [http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/mit/cons/CONS_Nov1974.pdf CONS]
	* [https://tumbleweed.nu/r/lm-3/uv/paper.html LISP Machine Progress Report]		* [https://tumbleweed.nu/r/lm-3/uv/paper.html LISP Machine Progress Report]