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Re: VM software for personal use?



Ron Johnson wrote:
On 04/25/2010 09:39 PM, John Hasler wrote:
Glenn English writes:
A Lisp OS!!???

Pikers.<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine>

I once worked at a place where they claimed to have written an
accounting package in BASIC.

I used a commercial accounting package written in BASIC.  Worked fine.

Snot-nosed kids never heard of Business BASIC or MAI Basic-4, or know the sublime beauty of COBOL written by masters of the craft.


Used LISP for years at IBM Research

Hugo


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