Symbolics

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Symbolics was a pioneering American computer company best known for its Lisp-based workstations and contributions to artificial intelligence hardware and software in the 1980s.

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Symbolics canonical 1
Symbolics UX400 1
Symbolics XL1200 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf artificial intelligence company
computer company
technology company
associatedWith Lisp programming language
MIT AI Lab hacker culture
competedWith Lisp Machines, Inc.
Texas Instruments
Xerox PARC
surface form: Xerox AI Systems
country United States of America
surface form: United States
developed 3600 series Lisp machine architecture
Genera
Ivory microprocessor
Symbolics Common Lisp implementation
Symbolics Graphics Division products
Zetalisp
faced decline with rise of general-purpose workstations
filedFor bankruptcy protection in the 1990s
foundedBy Dan Weinreb
Howard Cannon
Jack Holloway
Nick Gall
Rob Seliger
Russell Noftsker
Steve Berman
other former MIT AI Lab staff
foundedIn 1980
headquartersLocation Cambridge, Massachusetts
industry artificial intelligence
computer hardware
computer software
knownFor advanced development environment for Lisp
supporting AI research in the 1980s
window-based user interface on Lisp machines
laterHeadquartersLocation Concord, Massachusetts
notableEvent early commercial exploitation of Lisp machines
involvement in early AI commercialization wave
notableFor Genera operating system
Symbolics 3600-series workstations
surface form: Lisp machines

Lisp-based workstations
contributions to artificial intelligence hardware
contributions to artificial intelligence software
development of specialized Lisp machine processors
originatedFrom Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
surface form: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
peakPeriod 1980s
product Symbolics 3600-series workstations
surface form: Symbolics 3600 series

Symbolics 3600-series workstations
surface form: Symbolics 3640

Symbolics 3600-series workstations
surface form: Symbolics 3670

Symbolics 3600-series workstations
surface form: Symbolics MacIvory

Symbolics self-linksurface differs
surface form: Symbolics UX400

Symbolics self-linksurface differs
surface form: Symbolics XL1200

Symbolics 3600-series workstations
surface form: Symbolics XL400
stockExchangeListing NASDAQ
wentPublic 1984

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NuBus wasAdoptedBy Symbolics
Symbolics 3600-series workstations manufacturer Symbolics
this entity surface form: Symbolics, Inc.
Symbolics product Symbolics self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Symbolics XL1200
Symbolics product Symbolics self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Symbolics UX400