On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Daniel A. Seagraves wrote:
Whilst reading around, I've come across quite a
few refrences to the LispM,
or the Lisp Machine. What's a Lisp Machine? Was it a mini? Was it a micro?
Do any still run? Just curious...
Well, I don't know what other "LISP machines" exist, but a couple
Symbolics 3600 just traded hands between collectors over here in the Bay
Area.
This particular machine is a 36-bit single-user machine (although you'd
mistakenly think it was a multi-user mainframe from the massive 6-foot
cabinet) that is optimized to execute LISP. It was built around 1983.
Symbolics was a pretty large company for a time, and was founded by one of
the guys who started the MIT AI-lab. Symbolics went bankrupt in the early
90s, and bought out in 1995 by the original founder and renamed Symbolics
Technology Inc.
Check out more info at <http://home.brightware.com/~rwk/symbolics/>
I'll hopefully have some pictures to post from the move in a short while.
I still need to find a serial transfer cable for my Olympus D-220L camera
and Olympus is not being very helpful by ignoring my requests sent on
their web site.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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