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@amszmidt Yesterday I had a long chat with someone who took university classes taught by Richard Hamming, and much later got paid to write code on a Lisp Machine.

He said "No, not Symbolics, the other company that made Lisp Machines."

He couldn't remember the company, and I had no idea there was another company! Do you happen to know?

@amszmidt Clearly I am not well informed about the Lisp Machine.

@amszmidt Thanks for the info, I'll go look those up.

@shapr those are at least the ones descendant if MIT LispM. Then you had others too…. If you know the name of the individual and can DM it I can prolly “pull the file”.

@amszmidt @shapr There were also Japanese "Maclisp compatible" Lisp machines. But maybe they didn't have any MIT DNA in that sense.

@amszmidt @shapr FACOMα. I think they look great, even a bit better than the CADR.

@larsbrinkhoff @amszmidt @shapr The Xerox Dorado never had a case, just a bunch of boards in a rack. Can't find a photo of a complete one. Crazy-fast single-user Interlisp machine. larrymasinter.net/80-doradolis

@cutting @larsbrinkhoff @amszmidt @shapr

I had used a Dolphin in the early 80s, but never a Dorado.

My impression was they went crazy with ECL technology chips to implement it. But it still wasn't completely reliable because it was full of race conditions?

(Memory from the early 1980s, so not the most reliable memory. Also, I never liked Interlisp, so I may have some remaining prejudice in the matter.)

@weekend_editor @larsbrinkhoff @amszmidt @shapr I had a Dorado as my desktop for a while and it was reliable enough. I remember once it crashed and someone had to reseat the boards in the backplane and it was good to go again! Larry @masinter has a Mastodon account but doesn't look like he's active here. Interlisp-D was an acquired taste for sure. The development environment, once you got to know it, was perhaps the best I ever used. Watching Larry code was like watching a juggler ride a bike with 8 balls in the air while giddily describing his route.

@amszmidt @cutting @amoroso @weekend_editor @shapr @masinter Another prominent name I spotted among the contributors is Ronald Kaplan.

@larsbrinkhoff Thanks, but contributors to what? I may have missed some of the context of your post which is apparently not part of a thread.