Yes - I'm aware about what this is about. From the point of view of a developer, all demos show something that is missing in today's tools. To compare it to Ap

Yes - I'm aware about what this is about. From the point of view of a developer, all demos show something that is missing in today's tools. To compare it to Apple ][ is a bit too stretched. Lisp machines were developer machines. Machines for professionals in computing technology. We don't have that today. For example, what is the equivalent package or distro that transforms your PC in a "developer machine". You don't have anything like that. All you can do is stitch together some emacs/vi/gdb whatever and search some blogs when you're stuck. And beyond that you are not able to go and fix some IDE bugs _live_. Today we're missing a machine for professional programmer.