User's manual for the sisyphus simulation environment

This report describes how to create and simulate a design with Sisyphus. Inasmuch as Sisyphus is written in Symbolics-Lisp, some familiarity with both Lisp and with Symbolics computers is presumed. In addition, the concepts presented here presume an acquaintance with [3]. First, a disclaimer ? this report is neither a user's manual nor a reference manual, but rather a combination of the two. As such, it is neither a s detailed as a reference manual, nor as conversational as a tutorial. Further, this report describes yet another hardware description language and, in this author's humble opinion, there are already far too many HDLs and hence very little justification for writing more. To quote from the eminent numerician C.W. Gear's Forsythe award lecture [1],