Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 May 1999 18:18:49 -0700 (PDT) | From | Jonathan Walther <> | Subject | LISPM availability |
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Anyone know where I can get a LISPM? Being a relative newcomer to computing, I really want to give one of those babies a whirl. I'd like to see this "super rad developement environment". I realize its probably all text. Im fine with that. Scheme uber alles!
Jonathan
On Thu, 6 May 1999, Kris Karas wrote:
> David Miller wrote: > > > > Whatever you want to think of Mr. Thompson, the man has more programming mileage > > > than most people here, and Plan-9 is definitely _NOT_ a failure. > > > > Isn't plan9 what the AT&T ES switches run for an OS? I'd certainly not > > consider it a failure under those circumstances. > > Depends upon which version of switch. I worked on one such version, which used an > embedded LISP machine running a stripped down version of Symbolics Genera to do the > honors; it had some hairy expert-system code to make complex routing decisions in > real-time. Anyhow, that was six years ago; time has a way of changing things. :-) > > It's too bad the single-board LISPM was never marketed so as to be accessible to the > typical end-user; it would have stood a chance to rank along with Linux as an > alternative for the OS enlightened. Although not generally quoted, Sun publicly > conceded that it took six weeks to prototype and develop an application (using their > best software development environment) which took just one week on the LISPM. Being > the market leader, they knew the quote wouldn't hurt business. > > Kris > > > > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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