> This is one reason why a lot of Unix graphics applications feel so responsive on modern Linux boxes - they are doing the same amount of time they did 20 or 30

> This is one reason why a lot of Unix graphics applications feel so responsive on modern Linux boxes - they are doing the same amount of time they did 20 or 30 years ago while the computer is 10x as fast. Yep. Hardware wise, we're in the wonderful position where Lisp and Smalltalk systems, once regarded as too slow to be useful on commodity hardware, are open and ready for action before you can even blink.