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by mportela 1550 days ago
For a somewhat complete history of LISP machines, I recommend reading "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution" [1].

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8260364-hackers

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Thanks for the recommendation.

I've been learning/using CL, on the side, for about a year, in fits and starts, and I'm also picking up a lot of it's history and evolution along the way.

I find the history of the thing is as fascinating as the language/tools.

There's so much written on this but it's hard to aggregate and put together. Links lead to other links that lead to other links and oftentimes a lot of them are dead.

So I'm glad that there are books like this that can preserve some pieces of the story.