Re:Symbolics Genera - The Best Software Environment Available
by hga on Sunday November 07, 2010 @12:20PM
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Indeed; whatever the mistakes these companies made (also include the TI Explorer), they were zapped first by 32 bit microprocessors (a sustaining technology, but not one adopted quickly enough by Symbolics (plus they picked a bad initial platform to put their microprocessor on)) and then PCs (a classic disruptive technology).
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Re:Symbolics Genera - The Best Software Environment Available
by lispm on Sunday November 07, 2010 @12:37PM
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Symbolics had a DOS board for their Lisp Machines. The Ivory ran embedded in Macs and SUNs. They had a PC-based offering: CLOE.
It did not help.
The basic limitations of Genera: complex interwoven software with lots of legacy stuff, single user, single image, no security ... just did not scale and was not on a growth path.