Owner of Symbolics Lisp machines IP is interested in a non-commercial release

Re:Owner of Symbolics Lisp machines IP is interested in a no... by behnamoh on Friday July 07, 2023 @11:08PM (#36641021)

Thanks, this is interesting. I always like to know more about the history of the tech I use.

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Re:Owner of Symbolics Lisp machines IP is interested in a no... by mportela on Friday July 07, 2023 @11:45PM (#36641185)

Then I highly recommend the book "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution" [1]. It describes the hacker culture and the hackers behind a lot of things we use to this day, from the early 50s to the mid 80s.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers:_Heroes_of_the_Compute...

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Re:Owner of Symbolics Lisp machines IP is interested in a no... by behnamoh on Friday July 07, 2023 @11:51PM (#36641203)

Thanks, I'll check it out.

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Re:Owner of Symbolics Lisp machines IP is interested in a no... by Keyframe on Saturday July 08, 2023 @04:06AM (#36642385)

Symbolics is actually the founding reason for Stallman becoming full Stallman and all of the free software / GPL thing.

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