Symbolics 3650..

At 10:03 3/18/98 -0800, you wrote: No -- I don't think so -- at least at the beginning. My understanding is that the original Lisp Machine was designed and built by Tom Knight at MIT back in about 1977 or so as part of his, I think, Master's thesis. 'LMI' (Lisp Machines, Inc.) was incorporated to actually produce the things -- Symbolics, Inc. was formed a bit later. Richard Greenblatt also worked on the original machine (called, as I remember, 'Cadr') and went with LMI. David Moon and a horde of other MIT Lisp hackers went with Symbolics. Everything went belly-up about 10-years ago when Lisp on standard boxes (Suns, et. al.) became fast enough to compete with the specialized microcoded hardware found in the Lisp Machines -- which were also quite expensive. I am going from memory on this -- dates etc may vary... Regards Jack --------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack Harper Bank Systems 2000, Inc. 303-277-1892 Golden, Colorado USA "21st Century Financial Applications" Optical Cards for Bank, EBT, and Medical Applications Visit our Web Page: http://www.bs2000.com/talos (Last Update: 970902) ---------------------------------------------------------------------