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===Interlisp, BBN, and Xerox=== {{anchor|Xerox}} [[Bolt, Beranek and Newman]] (BBN) developed its own Lisp machine, named Jericho,<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/download/94/93|year=1981|title=Computing Facilities for AI: A Survey of Present and Near-Future Options|journal=AI Magazine|volume=2|issue=1}}</ref> which ran a version of [[Interlisp]]. It was never marketed. Frustrated, the whole AI group resigned, and were hired mostly by Xerox. So, [[Xerox]] [[Xerox PARC|Palo Alto Research Center]] had, simultaneously with Greenblatt's own development at MIT, developed their own Lisp machines which were designed to run InterLisp (and later [[Common Lisp]]). The same hardware was used with different software also as [[Smalltalk]] machines and as the [[Xerox Star]] office system. These included the Xerox 1100, ''Dolphin'' (1979); the Xerox 1132, ''Dorado''; the Xerox 1108, ''Dandelion'' (1981); the Xerox 1109, ''Dandetiger''; and the [[Xerox Daybreak|Xerox 1186/6085]], ''Daybreak''.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Dr. Dobb's Journal |date=July 1987 |title=The Xerox 1186 LISP Machine |pages=118–125 |first=Ernest R |last=Tello |url=https://archive.org/details/1987-08-dr-dobbs-journal/page/118/mode/1up |issue=129|quote=The Xerox 1186, nicknamed Daybreak, provides several unique, powerful features at a relatively low cost. [...] The 1186 closely resembles an earlier machine from Xerox—the 1108, or Dandelion.}}</ref> The operating system of the Xerox Lisp machines has also been ported to a virtual machine and is available for several platforms as a product named ''Medley''. The Xerox machine was well known for its advanced development environment (InterLisp-D), the ROOMS window manager, for its early graphical user interface and for novel applications like [[NoteCards]] (one of the first [[hypertext]] applications). Xerox also worked on a Lisp machine based on [[reduced instruction set computing]] (RISC), using the 'Xerox Common Lisp Processor' and planned to bring it to market by 1987,<ref>{{cite journal|year=1987|title=The AAAI-86 Conference Exhibits: New Directions for Commercial AI, VLSI Lisp Machine Implementations Are Coming|journal=AI Magazine|volume=8|issue=1|url=http://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/download/94/93}}</ref> which did not occur.
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