[PRL] AI Koans

[Matthias Felleisen]

Shriram's machine is my old machine, and I believe he has fired it 
up on a regular basis once a year. Shriram? -- Matthias


At Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:12:01 -0400, "Richard C. Cobbe" wrote:
> Lo, on Wednesday, April 30, Johan Ovlinger did write:
> 
> > It would actually make a really fun pl-seminar: reviving the lisp
> > machine...  literally.
> 
> I'll second the motion.
> 
> I've heard a number of people with many years of experience rave about
> how wonderful the old Lisp machines were, and how much better they were
> than these silly little OSes we have to use today, and so forth.  I have
> to admit, I tend to react to these folks in the same way that I react to
> stories about walking 10 miles to school through the snow uphill both
> ways, but it would be interesting to actually sit down at a Lisp machine
> and see what it was like, if for no other reason than to see what all
> the shouting's about.
> 
> (If all else fails, I believe Shriram still has that old lisp machine in
> his office at Brown, though I make no claims as to its condition, the
> availability of its system software, Shriram's willingness to loan it to
> us, or the feasibility of getting it up here.)
> 
> Richard
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