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

[Stephane Tsacas]

2008/10/16 Alexandre Lagüe-Jacques <alexandre.laguejacques at gmail.com>

> 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?


Check :
http://www.unlambda.com/cadr/index.html
Nice CADR emulator, works.

Stéphane
(Looking for a Nova switch key).