Symbolics Genera (was "NEC SX-4B on Ebay")

[Alexandre Lagüe-Jacques]

>>> It's a UNIX box, man.  The most (programmer-)friendly OS in
>>> existence.  At least for even moderately technical people.
>> There are UNIX-compatible people and non-UNIX-compatible people (cf
>> Unix Hater's Handbook).
>
>Even aside from that, I'm not convinced.  I think Symbolics Genera is
>arguably more programmer-friendly, though that could just be because I
>find Lisp a much nicer language than C.  (There may be even better
>OSes; that's just what I have personal experience with.)

This message pertains to der Mouse's comment... Out of idle curiosity I looked up Symbolics Genera and the story of the Lisp machines... Fascinating! Any idea of how to get one's hands on such a machine? eBay is not forthcoming although they have been mentioned in some old messages on cctalk.

- Alex