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Lisp was truly unique in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, but it required expensive hardware to run. It would be hard to conceive of a Lisp running well on a 6502 or an 8086.

You'd be surprised. https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/11192/wha... Of course something like FORTH was perhaps more suited to these smaller machines, but LISP implementations were around. Many users of 6502-based microcomputers were familiar with LOGO, which is just a LISP with different syntax.

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