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		voldacar on June 21, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sunstone – the last unreleased Lisp machine archit... What kind of work were you doing? They were several times the price of a highend PC at the time, right?

prettyStandard on June 21, 2022 [–]

One would think you would develop lisp programs on a lisp machine.

rjsw on June 21, 2022 | | [–]

Lisp Machines also had microcode to help run prolog faster.

voldacar on June 21, 2022 | | [–]

I meant what industry/application of course

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