Symbolics Genera (was "NEC SX-4B on Ebay")

15 Oct 2008

...
    It's a UNIX box, man.  The most
(programmer-)friendly OS in
 existence.  At least for even moderately technical people.  There are
UNIX-compatible people and non-UNIX-compatible people (cf
 Unix Hater's Handbook). 
Even aside from that, I'm not convinced.  I think Symbolics Genera is
arguably more programmer-friendly, though that could just be because I
find Lisp a much nicer language than C.  (There may be even better
OSes; that's just what I have personal experience with.) 
This message pertains to der Mouse's comment... Out of idle curiosity I looked up
Symbolics Genera and the story of the Lisp machines... Fascinating! Any idea of how to get
one's hands on such a machine? eBay is not forthcoming although they have been
mentioned in some old messages on cctalk.

- Alex

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Symbolics Genera (was "NEC SX-4B on Ebay")