DLW's thesis that Symbolics lost as part of the general losing of custom hardwar... | Hacker NewsDLW's thesis that Symbolics lost as part of the general losing of custom hardware (including all the parallel computer companies) is basically correct. Lucid on Suns was as fast as ZetaLisp on Symbolicses. But not so fast that that alone made me switch. What made me switch was that Lisp machines (both Symbolics and LMI) were so gratuitously, baroquely complex. The manuals filled a whole shelf. Eac
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20060517-00000151-jij-ent
