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>What little hardware R&D in which the company was still engaged was split between AI focused LISP machines for which there was no immediate market, and mainfra
by jmclnx 2y ago
>What little hardware R&D in which the company was still engaged was split between AI focused LISP machines for which there was no immediate market, and mainframes that were a rapidly shrinking market
Sounds familiar, eliminate "LISP machines" I wonder if history is repeating itself today for many companies.
- rjsw 2y agoSperry were reselling TI Explorers [1] (PDF), they did not develop their own Lisp Machine. [1] https://tgsoc.org/papers/SperryUnivacPioneersApplicationofAI.pdf https://tgsoc.org/papers/SperryUnivacPioneersApplicationofAI...