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Wikipedia has a little snippet on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine#End_of_the_Lisp_machines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine#End_of_th

Wikipedia has a little snippet on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine#End_of_the_Lisp_machines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine#End_of_the_Lisp_m... Basically, lisp machines were expensive workstation computers, and PCs killed all workstation manufacturers. Sun SPARCStations and Silicon Graphics machines bit the dust as well. Nobody could justify the cost anymore.

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>lisp machines were expensive workstation computers In most cases, yes, but the language also found its way into some very unexpected places. For example, a subset of Common Lisp, "L", was at the core of Prof. Rod Brooks' Subsumption Architecture which enabled the amazing mobile robots built in his lab. He ran Lisp on 16mhz 68332 embedded processors. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2949173_L_--_A_Common_Lisp_for_Embedded_Systems https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2949173_L_--_A_Comm...