[geeks] vmstat modification

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jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu writes:

>Yeah, from memory, 3650 was $600 (not including console).  Mac Ivory II

Ugh. That's way outta hand.

>As to a free (or cheap), I heard there was this guy in Laurel who sold a
>bunch of MacIvoryIIs for like $100 apiece.  Other than that, I haven't
>heard/seen any of them go in places I could get them (shipping a 3600 from
>LA is not an option for me, even if it is free.  I'm not sure that a 3650

3600 is probably 500 lbs or so. Not reasonably shippable.

>would be feasible from that distance either).  Pretty much, I hoping for
>something cheap to someday pop up withing 3-5 hours from me.  Weren't
>these things used for political analysis once?

No idea. CS research and CAD/CAM are the two niches I'm aware of.

Was Mathematica originally written on a lisp machine of some sort?

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