Lucid Inc. (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles 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.