: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.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
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.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- 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
made timesharing real.
It looms large in hacker folklore because of its... - PDP-10 n.
[Programmed Data Processor model 10] The
machine that made timesharing real.
It looms large in hacker folklore because of its... - 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... - 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... - cokebottle: /kohk'bot-l/ n. Any very unusual character,
particularly one you can't type because it it isn't... - WAITS:: /wayts/ n. The mutant cousin of {{TOPS-10}} used on a
handful of systems at {{SAIL}} up to 1990.
There was never an `official' expansion of WAITS...
