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by b33j0r 6 days ago
For posterity, parent is correct. The “flying his plane” story is a memeified summary. I did not actually mean that we would have lisp machines otherwise, which was the tell that I was kidding.

For others who did not get the joke, Kindall was kind of a big deal:

https://computerhistory.org/blog/fifty-years-of-the-personal...