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Animats11/20/20241 replyview on HN

Threads, yes. We had one Symbolics 3600, the infamous refrigerator-sized personal computer, at the aerospace company. But it wasn't worth the trouble. Real work was done with Franz LISP on a VAX and then on Sun workstations.

There were a lot of places that tried a bit of '80s "AI", but didn't accomplish much.


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nyrikki11/20/2024

2/3 of the fortune 100 companies used Expert Systems in their daily operations and knowledge bases survived.

I don't know how that can be dismissed as nothing.

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