Re: Lisp Machine considered paragon

[gclement@keps.com (Geoffrey Clements)]

In article <3k2j25$fom@larry.rice.edu>, shriram@asia.cs.rice.edu (Shriram
Krishnamurthi) wrote:

> Guess what?  There's a book with almost this very title.  I haven't
> read it yet, but from the excerpts I've seen, it seems to very much be
> of this spirit.  Take a look at
> 
> http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/analysts/daniel/unix-haters.html
> 
> It's The UNIX-HATERS Handbook [sic], by Simson Garfinkel, Daniel Weise
> and Steve Strassmann.
> 
> 'shriram

I have read it. One of the first tidbits in the book is an email from
someone who is forced to give up his Lisp machine for a Sun UNIX
workstation. He really liked his Sun because it booted really fast in
comparison to his Lisp Machine. In fact the Sun would spontaneously boot
itself just to remind you of how fast it could boot. B-) The book is
hilarious. Well worth the money. It even comes with it's own UNIX barf
bag.

geoff