One of the huge problems of the Lisp maschines was that they where quite happy with taking money from military and other huge copperation and did not really try

One of the huge problems of the Lisp maschines was that they where quite happy with taking money from military and other huge copperation and did not really try to compete with in that market. They where also not quick enougth to get at least a subset of there software running on other hardware.