Xerox D-Machines (was Re: [rescue] The fat lady. . .)

[Bill Bradford]

On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 06:05:13PM +0000, wlewis at mailbag.com wrote:
>Well, I personally like the way that Interlisp did things better than the way 
>MacLisp did things, so if I actually had a choice, I'd say the D-Machines were 
>better. OTOH, as you say, you can still buy a Symbolics machine. When I get the 
>spare change I need to buy a VME Sun-3 or 4 and then get a UX-400 board from 
>them for roughly $500. It's an Ivory CPU (with 4 MWords I think) on a VME card 
>that then runs Genera under X - only runs on SunOS 4.1.something I think, but 
>it's probably the cheapest way to get a Genera box running. 

I'm half tempted to go for a MacIvory board.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX