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From: Rainer Joswig <joswig@lispmachine.de>
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Subject: Re: Why don't people like lisp?
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 10:34:08 +0200
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In article <85smlrc7l9.fsf@junk.nocrew.org>,
 Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> wrote:

> joswig@corporate-world.lisp.de (Rainer Joswig) writes:
> > The animations for the ground breaking TRON movie were done on Lisp
> > machines.
> 
> Many sources say TRON were made using the one and only Foonly F1,
> which was a PDP-10 clone.

Right, I must have been dreaming a bit.

The TRON parts that Triple-I did (like the solar sailer)
were done in Lisp (they used the Foonly).
**Later** some of that code moved to the Lisp machine, it seems.
To the Symbolics S-Products.

http://www.tron-sector.com/articles/article.aspx?ID=30
http://www.tron-movie.com/production/Solar%20Sailer/
http://www.tron-movie.com/production/MCP/index.htm
http://www.tron-movie.com/production/Sark's%20Carrier/index.htm

http://www.red3d.com/cwr/papers/1982/ASAS82.html