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Re: Dylan (DYnamic LANguage) -- what's the deal?
Jonathan Guthrie <jguthrie@brokersys.com> wrote:
> Scott McKay <swm@mediaone.net> wrote:
>> China Black & Blue wrote in message ...
>>>/ By 1980, the Lisp Machine OS was written entirely in Lisp.
>>>/ And, by 1985, the Lisp Machine's front-end processor --
>>>A real commercial success.
>> What's your point? That commercial success is an indicator
>> of excellent technology? So explain why Apollo failed, despite
>> its high level of excellent technology.
> I'm not sure I would describe "sold to HP for hideous amounts of money
> and still being produced as one of the HP-400 workstation lines" as being
^^^^^^ I mean HP-9000
> a commercial failure.
Of course, if you're talking about the OS (Domain? It's been more than
a decade) then it wasn't a commercial success, but it was a Unix wannabe,
similar to the HP/UX that replaced it.
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