It was a problem, as I recall, but not nearly as big a problem as the fact that people stopped buying the machines :-) Actually, it turned out -- though I neve

It was a problem, as I recall, but not nearly as big a problem as the fact that people stopped buying the machines :-) Actually, it turned out -- though I never managed to communicate this to potential users -- Zeta-C and Symbolics C served different use cases. Symbolics C was best for porting entire C programs; Zeta-C was best if you had a library written in C and wanted to call it from Lisp.