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> We at #Symbolics were slow to acknowledge this. We believed our own “dogma” even as it became less true. It was embedded in our corporate culture. If you disputed it, your co-workers felt that you “just didn’t get it” and weren’t a member of the clan, so to speak. This stifled objective analysis. (This is a very easy problem to fall into — don’t let it happen to you!)
http://lemonodor.com/archives/2007/11/why_did_symbolics_fail.html
cc: #lisp #psychology
http://lemonodor.com/archives/2007/11/why_did_symbolics_fail.html
cc: #lisp #psychology
📃 Symbolics hypertext document examiner 1985
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7DxYj32cvoE
#symbolics #lispmachine #hypertext #lisp #computinghistory
SYMBOLICS HYPERTEXT DOCUMENT EXAMINER 1985
This is a poor VHS dub but it has been enhanced with images to give clearer details of how the Document Examiner looked.Jan Walker of Symbolics Research desc...YouTube
#lisp #lispmachine #symbolics #genera #pascal #niklauswirth Niklaus Wirth's PASCAL made it to unusual systems: Here is a screenshot of a Lisp Machine, browsing the original Pascal User Manual and Report, but in a hypertext browser, with a PASCAL implementation loaded...
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A Graphics Editor on a Lisp Machine, changing the attributes of a circle.
A Graphics Editor on a Lisp Machine, changing the attributes of a circle.