[jimbokun]

If true, it's astounding so few programmers wrote systems that handle such astounding amounts of data.

[stcredzero]

That's what people used to think of Symbolics Lisp machines. Customers would assume Symbolics had a team of thousands of programmers, when really it was about a dozen.

[pmarreck]

One of my favorite CS profs had one of those. I remember visiting his office hours so he could show it off to me.

I didn't do well in the class (it was a bit out of my league at the time) but I ended up in a career in software dev anyway