TheTexas Instruments Explorer is a family ofLisp machine computers. These computers were sold byTexas Instruments (TI) in the 1980s. The Explorer is based on a design fromLisp Machines Incorporated, which is based on the MITLisp machine. The Explorer was used to develop and deployartificial intelligence software.
Notable is also the early use of theNuBus as thesystem bus for the Explorer computer family.
The Explorer was used to develop and deployartificial intelligence software. Later models were based on a special32-bitmicroprocessor[1] developed by TI, which hardware had enhanced support for executingLisp software.
A notable application is SPIKE,[3] the scheduling system for theHubble Space Telescope. SPIKE was developed on Texas Instruments Explorer workstations.
^SPIKE(PDF), archived fromthe original(PDF) on 2017-02-27, Artificial Intelligence Scheduling for theHubble Space Telescope, Mark Johnston, Glenn Miller, Jeff Sponsler, Shon Vick, Robert Jackson, Space Telescope Institute
Software innovations for the Texas Instruments Explorer computer, Tennant, H.R.; Bate, R.R.; Corey, S.M.; Davis, L.; Kline, P.; Oren, L.G.; Rajinikanth, M.; Saenz, R.; Stenger, D.; Thompson, C.W., Proceedings of the IEEE Volume 73, Issue 12, Dec. 1985 Page(s): 1771 - 1790
Artificial intelligence hardware architectures for the Space Station era: The Texas Instruments Explorer and Compact LISP Machine, Krueger, S. ; Manuel, G. ; Matthews, G. ; Ott, G. ; Watkins, C., Opt. Eng. ; Vol/Issue: 25:11
P.H. Dussud, TICLOS: An implementation of CLOS for the Explorer Family, In Proc. OOPSLA'89, International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications, 1989, pp. 215–219.
Zeitgeist: Database Support for Object-Oriented Programming (1988), by S Ford, J Joseph, D Langworthy, D Lively, G Pathak, E Perez, R. Peterson, D. Sparacin, S. Thatte, D. Wells, S. Agarwal, In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Object-Oriented Database Systems (Zeitgeist was an OODBMS developed by Texas Instruments for the Explorer)
