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![A newspaper clipping with a photo of Russel Noftsker that says:
AI superstar plunges to earth
Knowledge-based expert systems delivered on symbolic processing machines are "a trend that I'd say is unstoppable at this point."
Russel Noftsker
Chairman, Symbolics, Inc.
February 1986
"I don't want to see the company fail. I don't want to see any more employees lose their jobs."
Noftsker
February 1988
BY CLINTON WILDER
and STANLEY GIBSON
CW STAFF
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Like Icarus, Symbolics, Inc. thought there was no limit to how high... [the picture cuts off]
Its technology was the envy of that sexy new industry, artificial intelligence, and its rapid climb to the $100 million revenue level in 1986 earned it acclaim as "a stock market superstar."
Now mired in red ink and leaderless -- its founders having been eased out of control -- the firm stands as a classic case of missed opportunities, overreaching ambition and market insensitivity.
"Success can be seductive," said Barbara Isgur, a technology analyst with D. H. Brown Associates in Tarrytown, N.Y.
"It's hard to know when to turn the corner or change direction. I can't think of a company that's been able to do that without a lot of pain," Isgur said.
Symbolics -- which sprang up at the forefront of an indus-[the picture cuts off]](https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonie/media_attachments/files/114/235/950/790/971/333/original/a9a70d42bebacc9a.png "A newspaper clipping with a photo of Russel Noftsker that says:
AI superstar plunges to earth
Knowledge-based expert systems delivered on symbolic processing machines are \"a trend that I'd say is unstoppable at this point.\"
Russel Noftsker
Chairman, Symbolics, Inc.
February 1986
\"I don't want to see the company fail. I don't want to see any more employees lose their jobs.\"
Noftsker
February 1988
BY CLINTON WILDER
and STANLEY GIBSON
CW STAFF
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Like Icarus, Symbolics, Inc. thought there was no limit to how high... [the picture cuts off]
Its technology was the envy of that sexy new industry, artificial intelligence, and its rapid climb to the $100 million revenue level in 1986 earned it acclaim as \"a stock market superstar.\"
Now mired in red ink and leaderless -- its founders having been eased out of control -- the firm stands as a classic case of missed opportunities, overreaching ambition and market insensitivity.
\"Success can be seductive,\" said Barbara Isgur, a technology analyst with D. H. Brown Associates in Tarrytown, N.Y.
\"It's hard to know when to turn the corner or change direction. I can't think of a company that's been able to do that without a lot of pain,\" Isgur said.
Symbolics -- which sprang up at the forefront of an indus-[the picture cuts off]")
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@keyboards Control is in the wrong place. Not meta? Super? Hyper? Screen is ok… #LispM #LispMachine
Android #Emacs 31.0.50 / Termux screencast, running Phel #lisp #PHP web application in localhost for development: https://nc.contabo-storage-1.lti.la/s/JzRSfFo6L6GADkt #unix #lispmachine
"The mix-in revolution: How an ice cream innovator in Somerville influenced Lisp pioneers at the MIT AI Lab—and made a lasting mark on programming."
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/25/1111238/the-mix-in-revolution/
MIT Technology Review · The mix-in revolution
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The Bitmap Font editor in #symbolics Genera, a #lispmachine
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It is true that the standard editor is ED.
https://tumbleweed.nu/r/lm-3/uv/chinual.html#index-ed
#LispMachine #Lisp #Emacs is the standard editor.
#Emacs is smaller than vi or ed.
ZWEI is 42831 lines total.
A bit of nice reverse engineering on a Sunday evening in #KiCad. #LispMachine
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And if you ever need to simulate your airplanes .. with colored glasses? We can do that! In 4-bit color at that!
Or if you're cross eye.. we support that too..
#LispM #LispMachine revolution in 4-bit color.
GIF
#MIT #CADR now in full 4-bit color for the first time in 40 years! #LM-3 #LispMachine #LispM
Smoking clover ....
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@screwtape That was a serious question, with a hint of "this has been done before".
(fc-file "foo.f") ;; foo.f defines FOO function.
(foo)
This is how Fortran, Prolog, C etc got implemented on the .... #LispMachine .. this is where it got unserious. =)
#LM-3 Lisp Machine System 303 is now out. #LispM #LispMachine
Get it while it burns your fingers.
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/bug-lispm/2025-01/msg00000.html
lists.nongnu.orgSystem 303.0 is now out
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@ksaj @praetor
There is also GNU CLISP, which is not GNU Common Lisp.
But .. if you want a #LispMachine .. why not just use one and not a sorry excuse? https://tumbleweed.nu/lm-3/
tumbleweed.nuLM-3 --- resurrecting the MIT CADR
#LispMachine just got support for the new Trident T-2400 and T-4800 hard drives.
They are 8, respectively 16 times bigger than a standard Trident T-300. Get them free just by multiplying your cylinder and head values.
#LispM Revolution Gone Wild.
(yes, that is bigger than what the Hurd supports)
2025 IS THE YEAR LISP MACHINE! #LISPMACHINE #LISPM
If you have a debugger, all problems are trivial. #LispM #LispMachine hacking gone wild!
System 302 is barely out the door .. and more hacking ensues. System 303 is around the corner. #LispM #LispMachine revolution is nigh!
So how cool is this. I have been reading a lot about the #lispmachine, but I never attempted to get an instance running on my GNU/Linux system. Thanks to @amszmidt this is really absolutely trivial: Clone the fossil repo and type "./m -s". And it works, I get a Y2K compliant instance! 
https://tumbleweed.nu/r/l/doc/trunk/README.md
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