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Objections: 1. the Xerox Lisp machines all used highly configurable processors which ran Lisp microcode, right back from the Alto; and by the time they got to the 1186 Daybreak it …

There certainly was a lot of mystique about Genera; I only got to play with a Symbolics machine once. But, although it was the very top end of the US East Coast Lisp machines, it w…

It hasn't happened to me. I started coding in 1982; I'm still doing it. In the meantime I've started four startups (none of which succeeded - I'm a much better geek than I am a bus…

This is a beautiful essay, and I've really enjoyed it. However, while interesting and inspirational it doesn't all ring true. Lisps from the years before generational garbage colle…