Survey on special purpose computer architectures for AI
ACM SIGART Bulletin
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Over the past ten years or more a question repeatedly asked of algebraic manipulation buffs is "Can you give me a deck to load on my computer center machine?" When the machine is a CDC 6600, 7600, or similar "number cruncher," the answer I give is a conditional "yes." There are a number of systems (SYMBAL, SCHOONSCHIP, ALTRAN, SAC-I, to name a few) which run on these machines; but no, the most interesting of the interactive general systems (I admit my biases: MACSYMA, SCRATCHPAD, REDUCE-2) do not run on these machines. I add my opinion that a software conversion effort to produce a MACSYMA (the most ambitious of the systems) for a CDC 7600 would be money wasted: one can more cheaply buy appropriate hardware than re-program.