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Re:A Look Back at the 1960s PLATO Computing System by SllX on Monday March 19, 2018 @02:33PM (#16621549)
Not many people today would think of their "GNU/Linux" system as a Lisp machine anymore than anybody thinks of their Chromebook as a JavaScript machine, nor is it really comparable to the Lisp Machines of the past.
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Re:A Look Back at the 1960s PLATO Computing System by jecel on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @01:26PM (#16640393)
I fully agree that GNU/Linux is nothing like a Lisp Machine, but that is because things didn't go according to the original plan (otherwise we would be talking about GNU/Trix).
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