Re: Next Boston Lisp Meeting: Wednesday June 25th 2008, 6pm at NEU Shillman Hall Room 135

Kent,

Kent M Pitman wrote:
>
> > One thing I was thinking about that would be really interesting
>
> > would be a talk about Lisp Machines,
>
>  
>
> 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.
>
I think I could take a shot at giving an overview talk about Lisp 
machines: why
they were thought of, how they fit into the context of the time, and a quick
overview of the software and enough about the hardware to generally
explain why they were "Lisp machines".  I can do this without
getting into "political" issues of the schisms and such.  We could 
always have
future talks focusing on more specific aspects, if people are interested.

-- Dan

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