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The only problem: you could not do anything with a Mac 128k. Especially not development. Things looked much brighter with the Mac II. But even there you needed
by lispm 12y ago
The only problem: you could not do anything with a Mac 128k. Especially not development.
Things looked much brighter with the Mac II. But even there you needed expensive 32MB or more RAM, a disk with VM, a large screen, an Ethernet card, a graphics card, for a useful setup. Plus a license of MCL. In sum that was cheaper than a Symbolics, though. Performance was okay for the time, but started to look better with 68040 machines - given that they had lots of memory.
The PPC 604 was appearing when Lisp Machines were already long dead. I don't think in real life single CPU 604s machines were that great.
- shiggerino 12y agoYes, early Mac development was done on Lisas. I think the later more capable Macs were similarly priced. What I meant when I brought up the PPC 604 is that by the mid-90s cost of hardware was no longer a big issue in providing users with powerful computing environments. But it's clear that power isn't really what sells. Not even to developers, if you look at some of the more brain-dead environments and languages out there.