Re: Current state of Symbolics

On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:40:36 -0500, Christopher Browne wrote:


Guessing does not always help. As you can read on that page, David
was (is?) providing maintenance. He was not the owner. The owner
(Andrew Topping) died earlier this year after a long heart
problem. AFAIK the situation of the rest of the last Symbolics is
still unclear and no buyer has been found yet.

Oh, dear. And it's not in good taste to sit around like sharks
circling whatever is left of an unfortunate situation.


As notorious as Symbolics is in the Lisp universe, it's natural to have
some curiosity-- it is part of the history of an entire culture.
Hell, it's one the big reasons we still get to enjoy shouting matches
over the GPL, CLIM, microcoded CPU's, etc.

Matt

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"You do not really understand something unless you can
explain it to your grandmother." — Albert Einstein.

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