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.
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.