Symbolics was a computer manufacturer Symbolics, Inc, and a privately held company that acquired the assets of the former company and continues to sell and maintain the Open Genera Lisp system and the Macsyma computer algebra system.
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Symbolics, Inc was a computer manufacturer headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and later in Concord, Massachusetts, with manufacturing facilities in Chatsworth, California.
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Symbolics designed and manufactured a line of Lisp machines, single-user computers optimized to run the programming language Lisp.
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Symbolics made significant advances in software technology, and offered one of the premier software development environments of the 1980s and 1990s, now sold commercially as Open Genera for Tru64 UNIX on the Hewlett-Packard Alpha.
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Symbolics was a spinoff from the MIT AI Lab, one of two companies to be founded by AI Lab staffers and associated hackers for the purpose of manufacturing Lisp machines.
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Symbolics' initial product, the LM-2, introduced in 1981, was a repackaged version of the MIT CADR Lisp machine design.
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Symbolics felt that they no longer had sufficient control over their product.
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Symbolics computers were widely believed to be the best platform available for developing AI software.
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The LM-2 used a Symbolics-branded version of the complex space-cadet keyboard, while later models used a simplified version, known simply as the.
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Symbolics developed the first workstations able to process high-definition television quality video, which enjoyed a popular following in Japan.
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The Connection Machine ran a parallel variant of Lisp and, initially, was used primarily by the AI community, so the Symbolics Lisp machine was a particularly good fit as a front-end machine.
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Symbolics later wrote new software in Symbolics Common Lisp, its version of the Common Lisp standard.
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Symbolics continued as an enterprise with very limited revenues, supported mainly by service contracts on the remaining MacIvory, UX-1200, UX-1201, and other machines still used by commercial customers.
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Symbolics sold Virtual Lisp Machine software for DEC, Compaq, and HP Alpha-based workstations and servers, refurbished MacIvory IIs, and Symbolics keyboards.
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In July 2005, Symbolics closed its Chatsworth, California, maintenance facility.
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