BIG successes of Lisp

[Joe Marshall]

Christian Lynbech <christian.lynbech at ericsson.com> writes:

> It is still a question of heated debate what actually killed the lisp
> machine industry. 
>
> I have so far not seen anybody disputing that they were a marvel of
> technical excellence, sporting stuff like colour displays, graphical
> user interfaces and laser printers way ahead of anybody else.

It's clear to me that LMI killed itself by an attempt to rush the
LMI-Lambda to market before it was reasonably debugged.  A lot of LMI
machines were DOA.  It's amazing how fast you can lose customers that
way.

As far as Symbolics goes...  I *think* they just saturated the market.