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Gilmore's Abstract Lisp machine

Perhaps the very first abstract machine implemented Lisp.

It was described by Paul Gilmore in 1959, in the same volume as McCarthy's first paper on Lisp.

Gilmore's chapter was one of the few papers cited by Peter Landin in his paper on the SECD machine.

References

Gilmore, P.C. 1959. ‘An Abstract Computer With a Lisp-Like Machine Language Without a Label Operator’. In Studies in Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics, 26:71–86. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0049-237X(09)70100-4. 
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