[PRL] AI Koans

Mitchell Wand wand at ccs.neu.edu
Wed Apr 30 14:23:17 EDT 2003


Perhaps one must Undertake a Pilgrimage in order to attain Enlightenment. 

>>>>> On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:16:49 -0400, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> said:

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


MF> 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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