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@screwlisp Thought you would be interested in this.

On the ex-Symbolics employees mailing list somebody posted a link to a "history of the Lisp machine".

youtu.be/sV7C6Ezl35A?si=S4uh4-

It's kind of long and so I didn't watch the whole thing, but just skipped around a little bit. Somebody else who did watch it said,

'Fascinating exposition. Given his mispronunciations of "CADR" and "Macsyma", it's clear that he wasn't in the room where it happened, nor spoke to anyone who was. But I can't quarrel with his research or cause-and-effect analysis of both the industry as a whole and Symbolics in particular.'

The document preparation system of Symbolics Lisp Machines consisted of two main hypertext tools, the Concordia authoring environment and the Document Examiner documentation browser and delivery interface. These papers describe the tools.

Supporting Document Development with Concordia
archive.org/details/smbx-conco

Document Examiner: delivery interface for hypertext documents
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/317

Internet ArchiveSupporting Document Development with Concordia : Symbolics : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveA paper on Symbolics Concordia by Janet H. Walker.Concordia integrates the facilities needed to create, revise, publish, distribute, and maintain very large...
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You know how and can do it with a chisel, but what you're presented with is a monster CNC machine to just make a simple square. (It is why I like "retro" computing, #LispMachine #LispM -- I can hack without having to spend several months on just using tools to do shit I know how to do).