> Between Macsyma, S-Graphics, and Statice Symbolics could have been a really great software business. How so? Don't you think they tried and explored that? In

> Between Macsyma, S-Graphics, and Statice Symbolics could have been a really great software business. How so? Don't you think they tried and explored that? In reality in early 90s nobody was interested in Lisp anymore. Macsyma was still sold to the market, but didn't have much success. Nichimen's N-World had a small customer base, ran on SGIs (which were still expensive) and then under Windows NT. Statice on non-Lispms never left the beta status. > I read on Usenet somewhere that there was an unsuccessful attempt to acquire Macsyma as a separate business. That's false. See Macsyma, Inc. The company was founded in 1992 and in 1999 acquired by 'Symbolics Technology'.