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Kent,<br>
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Kent M Pitman wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">> </span></font><font
face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial;">One thing I was
thinking about that would be really interesting <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">> would be a talk
about Lisp Machines,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">You're in the right town
for that. But Lisp Machines are a
big topic area. That's kind of like a talk on "the C language and
things
it has been used for". And the communities started off the same and
then
diverged into different cultures such that everyone's reality was not
even the
same. But even glossing that, there are issues of operating system,
editing
environment file system, editing tools, mail reading, patching tools,
marketplace, etc.</span></font></p>
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I think I could take a shot at giving an overview talk about Lisp
machines: why<br>
they were thought of, how they fit into the context of the time, and a
quick<br>
overview of the software and enough about the hardware to generally<br>
explain why they were "Lisp machines". I can do this without<br>
getting into "political" issues of the schisms and such. We could
always have<br>
future talks focusing on more specific aspects, if people are
interested.<br>
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-- Dan<br>
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