Re:The lost cause of the Lisp machines
by MangoToupe on Thursday November 20, 2025 @09:54AM
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> The hardware was not very good.
The hardware was never very interesting to me. It was the "lisp all the way down" that I found interesting, and the tight integration with editing-as-you-use. There's nothing preventing that from working on modern risc hardware (or intel, though please shoot me if I'm ever forced back onto it).
The hardware was never very interesting to me. It was the "lisp all the way down" that I found interesting, and the tight integration with editing-as-you-use. There's nothing preventing that from working on modern risc hardware (or intel, though please shoot me if I'm ever forced back onto it).