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Subject: Re: Is this the end of the lisp wave?
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Date: 18 Jan 91 00:01:29 GMT
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In-reply-to: lgm@cbnewsc.ATT.COM's message of 17 Jan 91 15:11:58 GMT


In article  lgm@cbnewsc.ATT.COM
(lawrence.g.mayka) writes:

   In article <22650@well.sf.ca.us> nagle@well.sf.ca.us (John Nagle)
   writes: Symbolics closed at 7/16 yesterday, down 3/16...

   Don't speak too soon.  Symbolics has no long-term debt...

It is odd to see a company seemingly on the brink of obsolescence and
obscurity whose products are coveted by so many.

Several research laboratories use Symbolics' machines, and the loyalty
seems high.  Former users say they'd do anything to be using Symbolics
machines.  Yet we debate how close to bankruptcy the company might be!

I'm about to start using Symbolics' machines, and I look forward to
experiencing what many call an excellent environment.

But I wonder whether the machines will go the way of the horse and
carriage soon.  What happens to the supplies of oats and stirrups and
so on that I will have collected, I wonder?
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