I need to look it up, but I thought that it was because of Lisp machines licensing, and only running on custom hardware, that the PC with Unix (C) won. If Lisp

I need to look it up, but I thought that it was because of Lisp machines licensing, and only running on custom hardware, that the PC with Unix (C) won. If Lisp had been implemented to run atop the cheap PC, it would have run faster with each hardware iteration, and may have won market share. Now I play with Shen and PicoLisp, which can run on anything almost.