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0 pointsstcredzero7y ago0 comments

That's what people used to think of Symbolics Lisp machines. Customers would assume Symbolics had a team of thousands of programmers, when really it was about a dozen.

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pmarreck7y ago

One of my favorite CS profs had one of those. I remember visiting his office hours so he could show it off to me.

I didn't do well in the class (it was a bit out of my league at the time) but I ended up in a career in software dev anyway

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0 pointsstcredzero7y ago0 comments

That's what people used to think of Symbolics Lisp machines. Customers would assume Symbolics had a team of thousands of programmers, when really it was about a dozen.

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pmarreck7y ago

One of my favorite CS profs had one of those. I remember visiting his office hours so he could show it off to me.

I didn't do well in the class (it was a bit out of my league at the time) but I ended up in a career in software dev anyway

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