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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, the lisp machine didn’t gain traction because the start-up times were so long and I believe this is due to it doing lots of internal checks which was awesome but unfortunately things like the Sun SPARCstation won because it was crazy fast although buggy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It was basically way ahead of its time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

It really was. I forgot to mention in my comment that the sun machines were also really cheap so, you know, capitalism.