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AFAIK Symbolics is basically a one-man operation, and the owner has been unwilling to sell the rights to Genera for any price.
by ndiddy 3y ago
AFAIK Symbolics is basically a one-man operation, and the owner has been unwilling to sell the rights to Genera for any price.
- i_am_a_peasant 3y agoi doubt he was offered >= 1 bln $. that's probably the price he's waiting for
- LispSporks22 3y agoDamn that’s too bad. Part of computing history and all.. wonder why he is motivated that way
- mepian 3y agoMaybe he's still hoping to use it to implement his "wish": http://web.archive.org/web/20011107164802/www.ai.mit.edu/people/jcma/jcma.html http://web.archive.org/web/20011107164802/www.ai.mit.edu/peo... "Wish List: a knowledge-based operating system running on a MIMD parallel machine. The system should exceed the productivity of the Lisp Machine by several orders of magnitude and integrate seamlessly with a global knowledge base and with a global computational environment." Looks like he recently registered a new company: https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_nh/872107 https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_nh/872107
- Keyframe 3y agoDoes he actually have any connection to Genera or even Symbolics?
- mepian 3y agoHe developed a well-known web server for Genera: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CL-HTTP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CL-HTTP
- asciilifeform 3y agoDKS doesn't own the IP, and wouldn't sell (to me at least) any unpublished sources, schematics, etc. for any price at all. As of several years ago, though, he was willing to part with a number of new-old-stock Ivory CPUs, for roughly the cost of their weight in gold. (And periodically offers Ivory machines for sale on eBay. Here's what these look like: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=2857 http://www.loper-os.org/?p=2857 )