> And yet UCSD Pascal was using a P-machine. So, the problem was the implementation and not the concept. Which was exactly my point.
My point is that implementations don't come from nothing. You can't just demand them to be there. They have to be invented/implemented/improved/... Companies at that time did not invest any money in micro implementations of Lisp. I also believe that there was a reason for that: it would have been mostly useless.
> Temporarily. But then it died when the big money went away and left Lisp all but dead. All the while all the people using languages on those "toys" kept right on going.
My point is that implementations don't come from nothing. You can't just demand them to be there. They have to be invented/implemented/improved/... Companies at that time did not invest any money in micro implementations of Lisp. I also believe that there was a reason for that: it would have been mostly useless.
> Temporarily. But then it died when the big money went away and left Lisp all but dead. All the while all the people using languages on those "toys" kept right on going.
Lot's of toys and languages for them died.