2008/6/6 Kent M Pitman <pitman@nhplace.com>:
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.
One thing that interests me is the use of Lisp machines in high-performance computing tasks, like 3D rendering. I know it's been done, I just never heard any detail -- who did it, why they chose a LispM over conventional architecture, the gains and setbacks they faced, etc. That would be a really cool thing to hear discussion about. --Jeff