asciilifeform: lol hey didn't we walk past that thing
asciilifeform: ( whether there'll be a third time, i have nfi, possibly thing has no moar life juice remaining to stand up a third time )
asciilifeform: from looking with the right magnifying glass, asciilifeform formed distinct impression that jp was raped by usg in erry hole not once, as ordinarily supposed, but ~twice~.☟︎
asciilifeform: was pretty concrete thing, rather than vapour as ordinarily presented in anglowank.
asciilifeform: db instead of idjit filesystems, parallel-errything instead of vonneumann, etc.
asciilifeform: jp wunderwaffen, '80s. evaporated without a gram's trace.
asciilifeform: jp was a hair's width away from picking up the torch that anglotardistan dropped, and anglos knew this, and so in late '80s they engineered an economic implosion for'em☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: ( it dun help that asciilifeform's jp is ~on par with a kindergartener's. slowly works on fixing this, but it's a far backburner item and i dun expect to get far in the near fyootoor )
asciilifeform: even from xerox's lispm i was able to find moar.
asciilifeform: all buried beneath the sands, even moar so than bolix.
asciilifeform: 'Before leaving this subject, I should mention that there have been a number of interesting LISP Machine designs done outside the U.S., particularly in Japan. For example, see [Hayashi]' << asciilifeform once spent coupla months trying to dig up these. and europistan's 'racal norsk' also. found ~0.☟︎
asciilifeform: picture what those folx could've done with modern fab.☟︎
asciilifeform: i'd bet swapping ~that~ to/from '80s 'fujitsu eagle's took most of those 6months !
asciilifeform: ( or even ~whether~ to -- rly, become piano tuner just cuz i have this 1 piano that's out of tune.. )
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: it's a biz, there are folx who do it, i've talked to half dozen of'em last yr ( all in cn , 0 in latrine america ) -- but i dun presently know how to break into it☟︎
asciilifeform: ( or rather, for recent crapola you'd need ion accelerator and other items that quickly take the buildup cost to 6 figs , even if bought 2ndhand )
