cash machine

n : a machine (outside some banks) that dispenses cash when a

personal coded card is used [syn: {cash dispenser}, {automated

teller machine}, {automatic teller machine}, {automated

teller}, {automatic teller}, {ATM}]

Lisp Machine

1. Any {machine} (whether notional or actual)

whose instruction set is {Lisp}.

2. A line of {workstations} made

by {Symbolics, Inc.} from the mid-1970s (having grown out of

the {MIT AI Lab}) to late 1980s. All system code for

Symbolics Lisp Machines was written in {Lisp Machine Lisp}.

Symbolics Lisp Machines were also notable for having had

{space-cadet keyboards}.

[More details and historical background?]

{(http://www.lavielle.com/~joswig/symbolic-computing.html)}.

(1998-12-13)