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Re:Run Lisp machine emulator on Linux by gumby on Friday January 19, 2024 @04:38PM (#39061564)
I have never been as productive as I was when I had (the terminals for) two of these babies on the desks in my office. I can't imagine how much they must have cost in 1985, much less in today's dollars.

I do remember each had 8 MW of memory (40 bits IIRC, 36 bit word + 4 bits of ECC) and one of them had a color display (!!!) in addition to the regular monitor.

And apart from the hardware cost, the machines themselves were in a machine room with coax and data run to my office.

Re:Run Lisp machine emulator on Linux by mcculley on Saturday January 20, 2024 @06:49AM (#39066688)
What were you developing or working on with them?

My only exposure to Symbolics was as part of a simulation system.

Re:Run Lisp machine emulator on Linux by gumby on Saturday January 20, 2024 @01:05PM (#39070405)
Re:Run Lisp machine emulator on Linux by mcculley on Saturday January 20, 2024 @02:02PM (#39071054)
Very cool!