28 Feb
2000
28 Feb
'00
10:27 a.m.
On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 06:12:16PM -0500, r. 'bear' stricklin wrote:
I've long been intrigued by Symbolics LISP
machines and I finally had the
opportunity to get one to poke at. (English grammar now requires me to
point out that I took advantage of that opportunity. (: )
Neato.
Not sure I've ever seen one... can you put up some pictures?
I heard they had nice keyboards with unshifted keys for all the bracket
variations (<[{) so you don't have to keep hitting shifted-numbers all
the time in lisp. Didn't know they used a GUI though. Is it X window
or something special?
Do they still have performance advantages over less specialized systems?
What kind of hardware modifications would optimize execution of Lisp?
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