Re: Current state of Symbolics


Paolo Amoroso wrote:
Matthew D Swank <akopa-is-very-much-like-my-mail-address@xxxxx> writes:

Does anyone know what's going on with Symbolics beyond the info on
http://www.unlambda.com/cadr/cadr_faq.html:
>Symbolics today is owned by one person and is really just a maintaince
>group for old lisp machines. The sole owner recently passed away and

Who was the sole owner?

The name Andrew Topping has floated around the internet before:
http://www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2002/001200.html

I had not heard anything about his passing away though, if he has.
Anybody have any pointers to any information?

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