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6/20/2025, 8:21:49 PM
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>They talk about how abhorrent the current C-style languages, OSes, etc are and provide their own golden solution.
The C-style languages took over after languages like Lisp and Smalltalk were popular.
>EXCEPT, it's all TALK. These guys never write any shippable piece of software, with their own golden solution. Every single talk they give is just about living in a fantasy land.
They made the Xerox Alto, Dorado, Star, Symbolics Lisp machines, and a lot of other systems from the 70s into the 90s. Ethernet and the design of the GUI (desktop, windows, buttons, icons, menus, mouse pointer, etc.) came from Xerox. They had a full GUI back when C/Unix people's idea of "user friendly" was C shell. They also had a big influence on the design of the Classic Mac OS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolics
>Under contract from AT&T, Symbolics developed Minima, a real-time Lisp run-time environment and operating system for the Ivory processor. This was delivered in a small hardware configuration featuring much random-access memory (RAM), no disk, and dual network ports. It was used as the basis for a next-generation carrier class long-distance telephone switch.
>The Symbolics Document Examiner hypertext system originally used for the Symbolics manuals- it was based on Zmacs following a design by Janet Walker, and proved influential in the evolution of hypertext.
>Symbolics produced the first workstation which could genlock, the first to have real time video I/O, the first to support digital video I/O and the first to do HDTV.[20]
A full list of their accomplishments is much too long for a 4chan post, of course.
>They talk about how abhorrent the current C-style languages, OSes, etc are and provide their own golden solution.
The C-style languages took over after languages like Lisp and Smalltalk were popular.
>EXCEPT, it's all TALK. These guys never write any shippable piece of software, with their own golden solution. Every single talk they give is just about living in a fantasy land.
They made the Xerox Alto, Dorado, Star, Symbolics Lisp machines, and a lot of other systems from the 70s into the 90s. Ethernet and the design of the GUI (desktop, windows, buttons, icons, menus, mouse pointer, etc.) came from Xerox. They had a full GUI back when C/Unix people's idea of "user friendly" was C shell. They also had a big influence on the design of the Classic Mac OS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolics
>Under contract from AT&T, Symbolics developed Minima, a real-time Lisp run-time environment and operating system for the Ivory processor. This was delivered in a small hardware configuration featuring much random-access memory (RAM), no disk, and dual network ports. It was used as the basis for a next-generation carrier class long-distance telephone switch.
>The Symbolics Document Examiner hypertext system originally used for the Symbolics manuals- it was based on Zmacs following a design by Janet Walker, and proved influential in the evolution of hypertext.
>Symbolics produced the first workstation which could genlock, the first to have real time video I/O, the first to support digital video I/O and the first to do HDTV.[20]
A full list of their accomplishments is much too long for a 4chan post, of course.
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