SYMBOLICS S-PACKAGES 3D GRAPHICS AND ANIMATION DEMO

Why HN readers recommended it

HN cites it as a startling example of how advanced Lisp machine interactive graphics were, often in Lisp and REPL-driven development discussions.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Red Martian

Topic

lisp machine graphics

Format

demo

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

15

Recommendation years in dataset

2014–2026

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• For whatever reason I really enjoyed the Symbolics graphics and animations demo[0] linked in the article. I was born in the 90s and have constantly heard the narrative that technological progress is getting faster and faster, and that we're currently at the forefront. And then …

• Be prepared to be amazed with what Xerox PARC and others were doing, while Bell Labs was busy pushing for UNIX. "Eric Bier Demonstrates Cedar" [LINK] "Emulating a Xerox Star (8010) Information System Running the Xerox Development Environment (XDE) 5.0" [LINK] "Documents as User Interfaces …

• I'm glad the middle screen is explained, Symbolics always gets overshadowed by SGI. If you want to see it in action, watch this: [VIDEO]