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by pjmlp 885 days ago
Common Lisp is the uniformization of what Lisp Machines across Genera, TI, and Xerox PARC (although Interlisp-D was a different species) were offering for a full graphics workstation, alongside other systems.

It was as kitchen sink as having POSIX (basically a full blown UNIX specification), to be expected to fill in the stuff missing from ISO C standard library.