ComputerMuseum:Historical Computers in Japan:Other Computers:Timeline

Year	Month	Japan	World
1979		Kobe University developed the Kobe University Lisp machine.
1982		The Fifth Generation Computer System project based on Knowledge Information Processing technology began.	IBM announced IBM 8084, 8083
1982		Osaka University developed the EVLIS Lisp machine.
1983		NTT Telecommunications Laboratory ELIS Lisp machine prototype began operating.
1984		RIKEN developed a Lisp machine FLATS for formula manipulation machine.
1984		Fujitsu announced the FACOMα Lisp machine.
1987		Electrotechnical Lab. developed SIGMA-1, a data flow computer with 128 processors.
1990	02	NEC and JAL announced the joint development and operation of a flight crew scheduling system based on a LISP machine LIME.	Sun Microsystems announced SPARCstation 2