Re: Lisp Machine considered paragon

[kumar@pt9500.ped.pto.ford.com (Ganesh Kumar)]

>>>>> "Geoffrey" == Geoffrey Clements <gclement@keps.com> writes:

    Geoffrey> In article <3k2j25$fom@larry.rice.edu>,
    Geoffrey> 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

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

    Geoffrey> geoff


This is a true story, honest. I bought this book sometime last year &
had it in my car when I was driving down to Cincinnatti with my
wife. My wife was pregnant at that time & actually put the `barf bag'
that came along with the book to good use. Of course she doent know
Unix, (let alone Lisp machines) but felt that a nerdy book with a barf bag
was a neat idea all the same. 

Anyhow the book is fairly entertaining if you dont begin to take it
too seariously. I guess you got to be kidding yourselves if you
believed that the Lisp machines were going to take over the world (no
flames please).


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