Other Computers

Brief HistoryExhibits

year/month Timeline
1979　 Kobe University developed the Kobe University Lisp machine.
1980　 Tsukuba University completed the PACS-32, a parallel machine with 32 CPUs
1981　 University of Tokyo produced the prototype GRACE parallel relational database machine
1982/10 Osaka University completed the prototype LINKS-1 computer graphics system
1982　 The Fifth Generation Computer System project based on Knowledge Information Processing technology began.
1982　 Osaka University developed the EVLIS Lisp machine.
1983　 NTT Telecommunications Laboratory ELIS Lisp machine prototype began operating.
1983　 Kyoto University produced the QA-2 prototype VLIW computer
1983　 Kyoto University produced the ADENA I prototype data parallel computer
1984/05 Kobe University completed the PEK Prolog machine
1984　 RIKEN developed a Lisp machine FLATS for formula manipulation machine.
1984　 Fujitsu announced the FACOMα Lisp machine.
1986/05 Mitsubishi Electric announced the AI work station, MELCOM PSI
1987　 Electrotechnical Lab. developed SIGMA-1, a data flow computer with 128 processors.
1989/09 University of Tokyo completed the GRAPE-1 gravitational calculation machine
1990/02 NEC and JAL announced the joint development and operation of a flight crew scheduling system based on a LISP machine LIME.
1990　 Electrotechnical Laboratory produced the prototype EM-4 data flow machine with 1,024 processors
1993　 University of Tokyo completed the PIE parallel inference engine
1993　 Toyohashi University of Technology developed the SM-1 SIMD parallel computer
1995　 JUMP-1 massively parallel computer prototype built as priority scientific research project
1999　 Tokyo Institute of Technology developed the PRESTO II personal computer cluster