Lucid Inc., Kartoniert / Broschiert

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Lucid Incorporated was a software development company founded by Richard P. Gabriel in 1984 which went bankrupt in 1994.Gabriel had been working for Lawrence Livermore National Labs on a computer hardware project called "S1", the first incarnation of which used a CISC processor. The compiler technology necessary to take full advantage of the instruction set proved to be infeasible to develop, and the second incarnation was instead a RISC processor. The secret ingredient was laser pantography, a process which used a focused laser to etch the semiconductors of the chip rather than the usual photographic mask.