&gt; What killed them? The SPARCs came in and ran all the LISP faster.<br>Didn't Genera take something like 1/2 hour to boot &amp; configure itself?<br>Even on the LISPM emulators Genera takes about 10 mins to boot<br>on a decently fast alpha...
<br>A decent reading set for any one interested:<br><a href="http://bitsavers.org/pdf/mit/cadr/chinual_6thEd_Jan84/">http://bitsavers.org/pdf/mit/cadr/chinual_6thEd_Jan84/</a><br>The section on Processes is relatively interesting as well.
<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Lead thou me on, O Zeus, and Destiny,<br>To that goal long ago to me assigned.<br>I'll follow and not falter; if my will<br>Prove weak and craven, still I'll follow on.<br> -- Epictetus