simonbrooke
No user record in our sample, but simonbrooke has activity below (stories or comments). Likely we have partial data — the full bulk-load will fill profiles in.
No user record in our sample, but simonbrooke has activity below (stories or comments). Likely we have partial data — the full bulk-load will fill profiles in.
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 was a single chip, so a microprocessor.…
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 was just a US East Coast Lisp machine.…
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 businessman - and done a couple of…
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 collection might spend five percent of their…