The Butterfly™ lisp system
Seth A. Steinberg, David S. Allen, Laura Bagnail, Curtis M. Scott · National Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 1986
This paper describes the Common Lisp system that BBN is developing for its Butterfly™ multiprocessor. The BBN Butterfly™ is a shared memory multiprocessor which may contain up to 256 processor nodes. The system provides a shared heap, parallel garbage collector, and window based I/O system. The future construct is used to specify parallelism.