“Lisp programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing”
Obviously the developers of Lisp Machine operating systems could not ignore the cost of the operations. Especially since they developed ambitious software (an operating system and its application) on relatively slow machines (a Symbolics 3600 was as fast as a 1 MIPS DEC VAX 11/780).
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Obviously the developers of Lisp Machine operating systems could not ignore the cost of the operations. Especially since they developed ambitious software (an operating system and its application) on relatively slow machines (a Symbolics 3600 was as fast as a 1 MIPS DEC VAX 11/780).