SAIL /sayl/, not /S-A-I-L/ n.
1. The Stanford
Artificial Intelligence Lab. An important site in the early
development of LISP; with the MIT AI Lab, BBN, CMU, XEROX PARC, and
the Unix community, one of the major wellsprings of technical
innovation and hacker-culture traditions (see the WAITS entry
for details). The SAIL machines were shut down in late May 1990,
scant weeks after the MIT AI Lab's ITS cluster was officially
decommissioned. 2. The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Language
used at SAIL (sense 1). It was an Algol-60 derivative with a
coroutining facility and some new data types intended for building
search trees and association lists.
1. The Stanford
Artificial Intelligence Lab. An important site in the early
development of LISP; with the MIT AI Lab, BBN, CMU, XEROX PARC, and
the Unix community, one of the major wellsprings of technical
innovation and hacker-culture traditions (see the WAITS entry
for details). The SAIL machines were shut down in late May 1990,
scant weeks after the MIT AI Lab's ITS cluster was officially
decommissioned. 2. The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Language
used at SAIL (sense 1). It was an Algol-60 derivative with a
coroutining facility and some new data types intended for building
search trees and association lists.
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- SAIL /sayl/, not /S-A-I-L/ n.
1. The Stanford
Artificial Intelligence Lab.
An important site in the early development of LISP... - ITS /I-T-S/ n.
1. Incompatible Time-sharing System,
an influential though highly idiosyncratic operating... - PDP-10: [Programmed Data Processor model 10] n. The machine that
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It looms large in hacker folklore because of its... - PDP-10 n.
[Programmed Data Processor model 10] The
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It looms large in hacker folklore because of its... - Foonly n.
1. The PDP-10 successor that was to have
been built by the Super Foonly project at the Stanford Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory along with a new operating system.
(The name itself came from FOO NLI, an error message... - bucky bits /buh'kee bits/ n.
1. obs. The bits produced by
the CONTROL and META shift keys on a SAIL keyboard (octal 200 and
400 respectively),
resulting in a 9-bit keyboard character set. The... - hacker n.
[originally, someone who makes furniture with an
axe] 1.
A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable... - AI koans /A-I koh'anz/ pl.n.
A series of pastiches of Zen teaching riddles created... - metasyntactic variable n.
A name used in examples and
understood to stand for whatever thing is under discussion,
or any random member of a class of things under...
