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Okay, third bandwidth-wasting question.

I've read everything I can find about the history of Symbolics (and I'd
love pointers to more), but I'm fairly unclear about the LMI side of the
story.  Is anyone willing to relate the saga of the design and
implementation of the first LispMs at MIT and the arguments that caused
not one but *two* separate companies to spin off to make LispMs?

Furthermore, does anyone know the story of what happend to LMI?  I have so
far gleaned the fact that somehow TI managed to take off with LMI's ideas
and generate the Explorer, but I don't exactly understand what the
situation was that caused this.

And does anyone have pictures of the LMI, MIT, and TI LispMs?  I've seen
lots of pictures of Symbolics machines (on the sites metioned in the
previous message), but I've seen only one handful of pictures of a TI
Explorer, and those weren't tremendously detailed.

Pardon my dredging up old history and rivalries, but I have a not
insignifigant interest in computing history, especially the history of AI.
Maybe one day I'll get a grant to harangue the people who were there and
write a book about them.  (Yeah, right.)

'james