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I predict the Lisp Machine will return, with Android OS Clojure hacking as its embryonic beginning of life.

The Lisp Machine wasn't simply a piece of hardware which happened to run Lisp:

http://www.sts.tu-harburg.de/~r.f.moeller/symbolics-info/dev...

http://www.sts.tu-harburg.de/~r.f.moeller/symbolics-info/doc...

The Android OS is not written in Lisp. The turtles do not go all the way down. Therefore it is not and will never be a Lisp Machine in any reasonable sense.

It's written in Java, so can be trivially ported to Clojure and made incrementally more Lispish, no? The kernel is still Linux but that could be fixed too, why not?

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