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by snek_case 1545 days ago
You could do some powerful things with LISP machines but I think the underlying assumption is that everything is written in LISP, or compiles to LISP (or its underlying bytecode). That places restrictions on what you can do. For example, does it do high-performance multithreading and SIMD right?

Also not sure LISP machines solved security as well as modern-day Linux does. I think it was just less of a concern back then, because you knew most of the people who were on the network.
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pjmlp 1545 days ago
The answer for that question lies with Connection Machine and Star-Lisp.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine

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mark_l_watson 1545 days ago
I used to start writing Star-Lisp code for my company’s Connection Machine (version 1, the SIMD one) by using Coral Common Lisp on my little Macintosh. Then I would get on an airplane and fly to the city where out CM was installed.
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