[LispM-Hackers] Updated web page

[ford@objs.com]

"James A. Crippen" wrote:

> ford@objs.com writes:
>
> > James,
> >
> > TI never purchased LMI's assets.  TI licensed the right to produce
> > an MIT-derived Lisp Machine from LMI, and purchased the Nu Machine &
> > NuBus from Western Digital, which was the platform for the LMI
> > Lambda, their second generation machine.  LMI also acquired the
> > right to sell a version of the Explorer.  LMI was not is a strong
> > position when it made this deal, and wasn't afterwards either, but
> > LMI was still in the Lisp Machine business, concurrently with TI and
> > Symbolics, for a number of years after this deal was inked.
>
> Duly noted.  I'm making the changes to the page presently.  Do you
> happen to know what year the license to LMI technology was obtained
> in?  That and what year TI bought the Nu Machine/NuBus?  Dates would
> make the paragraph read a little better, I think.

1983 for both.

Steve

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