simonbrooke

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   by simonbrooke 3y ago

   Objections: 1. the Xerox Lisp machines all used highly configurable processors which ran Lisp microcode, right back from the Alto; and by the time they got to the 1186 Daybreak it was a single chip, so a microprocessor. So to say they didn&
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   by simonbrooke 3y ago

   There certainly was a lot of mystique about Genera; I only got to play with a Symbolics machine once. But, although it was the very top end of the US East Coast Lisp machines, it was just a US East Coast Lisp machine. You edited files, you
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   by simonbrooke 8y ago

   It hasn't happened to me. I started coding in 1982; I'm still doing it. In the meantime I've started four startups (none of which succeeded - I'm a much better geek than I am a businessman - and done a couple of manageme
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   by simonbrooke 10y ago

   This is a beautiful essay, and I've really enjoyed it. However, while interesting and inspirational it doesn't all ring true. Lisps from the years before generational garbage collection might spend five percent of their time in GC