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From: df@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG (Daniel Finster)
Subject: Re: Why lisp failed in the marketplace
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In article <jbs-1302971006290001@dial-sf1-5.iway.aimnet.com>, Jeffrey B. Siegal <jbs@quiotix.com> wrote:
    
    At the time, Symbolics had just announced a brand new, lower cost (but
    still proprietary) system, and the consensus was that they were basically
    wasting time and money on that approach.

11 years later, Symbolics Genera is still THE most capable Lisp environment
available anywhere, at any price.  Hyper Win!

"Open Systems" are a loss.  In practice, they are euphemisms for the
most anti-interoperable systems available: UNIX

They'll take away my LispM when they pry my cold, dead fingers away
from the Proprietary keyboard.

  "Computers are never big enough or fast enough.  I have no patience at
  all with these damned PCs" -- Bill Gosper
