>>>>> On Fri, 10 Apr 1998 22:57:58 -0500 (CDT), CoRey <omega.uta.edu at cjc9024> said:

> I'm not worried about it too much, I'm waiting for my account on a
> real Symbolics Lisp Machine with Genera to play with, and that will
> blow away ANY Lisp I could get for Linux :=P it has CLOS now and
> everything in CLTL2 I think...I plan on porting StarLisp simulator and
> Maxima (the original Macsyma is on this machine too I believe).

Ah a Symbolics Lisp Machine, those were the days.  A program
development environment that was years ahead of its time.  I still
believe in many ways it is superior to what exists today.

I have not used a Symbolics in perhaps ten years, at least eight.  I
did not think any still existed.  Has there been any development work
on Symbolics in the last ten years?  It is hard to believe that a
Symbolics (even if there has been some development in the last 10
years) would "blow away" Lisp on any modern workstation.  I would be
surprised if it could "blow away" Lisp on this HP-UX box which was a
fairly fast box 3-4 years ago.

Art

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