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> In house, Symbolics treated it with benign neglect, and I don't think it was massively improved. There is a lot of butthurt from various people, who seem to
by lispm 11y ago
> In house, Symbolics treated it with benign neglect, and I don't think it was massively improved.
There is a lot of butthurt from various people, who seem to know better how to run a company in hindsight. Symbolics sold Macsyma on various platforms: Lispm, Windows, DEV Vax, Sun Unix.
> it never got development resources commensurate with its actual status and potential.
Symbolics was still selling Macsyma at a time when competitors like LMI or TI were no longer in the Lisp business.
- hga 11y agoThere is a lot of butthurt from various people, who seem to know better how to run a company in hindsight. Symbolics sold Macsyma on various platforms: Lispm, Windows, DEV Vax, Sun Unix. The exclusive licencing to Symbolics resulted in a delay in porting it to non-Lispm platforms, due in part to the cited internal opposition. And not too much later Symbolics effectively exited the market; they too have a lot to say about how not to run a company. Symbolics was still selling Macsyma at a time when competitors like LMI or TI were no longer in the Lisp business. Yet for some explicable reason people stopped buying it and its market-share crashed to 70% to 1% in 5 years.