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Apollo Dn300 This is an MC68010-based (10 MHz) workstation with no
local disk. Virtual memory paging is over a 10-megabit
Ring network. The machine has 1.5 megabytes of physical
memory. The PSL implementation is the same as that on
the HP 9836. The operating system is the Aegis operating
system, a Unix-like Apollo operating system. There is a
200,000-item heap. It uses a copying garbage collector.
Apollo Dn600 This is a dual MC68000-based (10 MHz) workstation; the
second processor is used for paging (hence, this is a virtual
memory machine). There is a 4 kilobyte cache, 2 megabytes
of physical memory, a local disk, and a hardware floating-
point processor. The PSL implementation is identical to
that on the DN300.
Apollo Dn160 This workstation uses a bit-sliced (AMD2903) implemen-
tation of an MC68000 architecture machine. The bit-sliced
CPU is microcoded to behave as an MC68000. It has fast
floating-point, a 4-kilobyte instruction cache, a 16-kilobyte
data cache, a 4-megabyte physical memory, and a local
disk. The PSL implementation is identical to that on the
DN300.
Sun The Sun timings were run on a Sun Workstation 2/120.
It uses the MC68010 processor, runs with a 10Mhz clock,
and has 3 megabytes of memory. It is a virtual memory
machine allowing up to 16 megabytes per process. The
operating system is BSD Unix 4.2. Each Lisp item in Sun
PSL is 32 bits with the tag in the top 8 bits. A copying
garbage collector is used.
IBM 3081 The 3081 timings were run on the IBM Palo Alto Scien-
tific Center model D 3081. It has a 64 Kilobyte instruction
cache, a 64 kilobyte data cache, and a 16 megabyte mem-
ory. The CPU runs at 4–8 MIPS Aside from a different
use of tags during garbage collection, this implementation
is PSL 3.2.