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Screme: a Scheme for the 88000. There was some interesting design choices, in-particular using code alignment restrictions on the 88000 for procedure type-checking - the procedure? primitive had zero-cost during procedure calls. It also specialized other type-tests primitives in the test in (if test ...) syntax.
Chapter in this excellent book: http://www.amazon.com/Topics-Advanced-Language-Implementation-Peter/dp/0262121514
Paper: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=68199
"The Runtime Environment a Scheme Implementation
for Screme, on the 88000"
Steven R. Vegdahl at Tektronix Laboratories,
Uwe F. Pleban at Applied Dynamics International