Spice Lisp

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Spice Lisp is a Lisp compiler implementation of Common Lisp, originally written by CMU's Spice Lisp Group which targeted the microcode of the 16-bit PERQ workstation and its Accent operating system; it used that workstation's microcode abilities (it provided microcodes for Pascal, C, and Ada besides) to implement a stack architecture to store its data structures as 32-bit objects and to enable runtime type-checking. It would later be popular on other workstations.

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• Gabriel, Richard P. (May 1985). Performance and evaluation of Lisp systems. MIT Press; Computer Systems Series. ISBN 978-0-262-07093-5; LCCN: 85-15161. 
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