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#+title: Comparison with Symbolics Genera
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#+filetags: :passepartout:history:symbolics:comparison:
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| | Symbolics Genera (1980s) | Passepartout (2020s) |
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| Lines | ~1,000,000 | ~21,000 (self-driving target) |
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| Developer-years | ~10 years, large team | ~1 year, 1-3 devs |
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| OS | Built from scratch in assembly + Lisp | Runs on Linux (free OS layer) |
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| Hardware | Custom Lisp Machine (entire computer) | PCIe card (FPGA or Tenstorrent) |
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| Market | $50K-$100K/seat | $5K-$50K/appliance |
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| Scope | Full OS + environment | Cognitive agent + hardware acceleration |
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The Symbolics comparison is instructive: they built a full Lisp OS from scratch. Passepartout runs on Linux, providing the OS layer for free. The hardware integration is a PCIe card, not a replacement of the entire host. The scope is dramatically smaller — ~2% of the code for a fraction of the functionality that matters most.
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See also: [[file:lisp-economics.org][Lisp economics]], [[file:self-driving-lisp-machine.org][Self-driving Lisp Machine]]
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