[plt-scheme] Symbolics

That level of usability is something I would love to see PLT Scheme achieve.
I used them for many years and actually donated one to a computer museum
about 10 years ago.

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Johan Coppieters <johan577 at mac.com> wrote:

> The most beautiful thing I ever saw during my years in computer science at
> the Brussels Free University.
>
> A Symbolics Lisp machine !
>
> So open, so clean, so pure, well integrated, etc ...  these guys were good.
> Now it also seems they were the first ever to register a domain name:
> http://symbolics.com/
>
> It seems the genera environment survied somewhere in a corner of the
> Internet.
> http://www.symbolics-dks.com/Genera-1.htm
>
> Anyone an idea if the lisp sources are somewhere available?
>
> The system was so open, that even the scheduler (that was ofcourse written
> in Lisp) could be changed while the system was running.
>
>
> Johan Coppieters.
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