* 1985-Release 6. 0, introduction of Symbolics Common Lisp, the Ephemeral Object Garbage Collector and the Document Examiner

* Screenshots of the award-winning Symbolics Document Examiner

* Symbolics Document Examiner, a software program

** Symbolics Document Examiner ( Symbolics workstations )

The Symbolics Document Examiner was first used for a hypertext implementation of the Symbolics manual in the sixth release of the Genera operating system, and was well liked, winning an award from the Society of Technical Documentation.

The Symbolics Document Examiner used a hierarchical structure, which differed from other experimental hypertext systems ; it apparently was partially inspired by an even earlier hypertext system, the precursor to Texinfo which originated with Emacs

Symbolics Document Examiner users could add bookmarks, which allowed returning to specific items easier ; this method was later incorporated in graphical web browsers.

The biggest drawback to the Symbolics Document Examiner was that users could not make changes to any information or to a document's navigation.

The authoring environment for the Document Examiner was Symbolics Concordia.

* Symbolics Document Examiner screenshots

Symbolics, Inc. was a computer manufacturer headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and later in Concord, Massachusetts, with manufacturing facilities in Chatsworth, California ( a suburban section of Los Angeles ).

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.

The other was Lisp Machines, Inc., although Symbolics attracted most of the hackers, and more funding.

Symbolics ' initial product, the LM-2 ( introduced in 1981 ), was a repackaged version of the MIT CADR Lisp machine design.

The software bundle was later renamed ZetaLisp, to distinguish the Symbolics ' product from other vendors who had also licensed the MIT software.

Symbolics ' Zmacs text editor, a variant of Emacs, was implemented in a text-processing package named " ZWEI ", an acronym for " Zwei was Eine initially " — " Eine " being an acronym for " Eine Is Not Emacs " ( both recursive acronyms and puns on the German words for " One " (" Eins ", " Eine ") and " Two " (" Zwei ")).

The Lisp Machine system software was then copyrighted by MIT, and was licensed to Symbolics.

According to a Symbolics employee, the reason for the change in policy was Richard Stallman's making changes with which they disagreed, such as removing Symbolics ' copyright notices on Symbolics ' produced enhancements and transferring the resulting enhancements to the other commercial licensees, and at one point leaving the software in a state where it would not compile.

The first commercial Internet domain name, in the TLD. com, was registered on 15 March 1985 in the name symbolics. com by Symbolics Inc., a computer systems firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The Genera operating system was only available for Symbolics Lisp Machines and the Open Genera virtual machine.

Symbolics Genera was published on tape and CD-ROM.

The software of the operating system was written mostly in Lisp Machine Lisp ( named ZetaLisp ) and Symbolics Common Lisp.

The documentation was created with a separate application that was not shipped with Genera: Symbolics Concordia.

Along with Symbolics and Sun Microsystems, Apollo was one of the first vendors of graphical workstations in the 1980s.

Mixins first appeared in the Symbolics ' object-oriented Flavors system ( developed by Howard Cannon ), which was an approach to object-orientation used in Lisp Machine Lisp.

Other commercial machines that used writable microcode include early Xerox workstations, the DEC VAX 8800 (" Nautilus ") family, and the Symbolics L-and G-machines.

Symbolics Genera has been developed from the early 1980s to the early 1990s.

The early versions of Symbolics Genera were built with the original windowing system of the Lisp Machine operating system.

In early 1982, Macsyma was licensed by MIT to Arthur D. Little, Inc., which became the broker for Macsyma and soon licensed Macsyma to Symbolics in late 1982.

Despite resistance from many in Symbolics, Macsyma was released for DEC VAX computers and Sun workstations using Berkeley's Franz Lisp in the early to mid 80s.

Pavelle ran the Macsyma division at Symbolics until early 1986.

The best of the best during the early days of the Hustle, were Floyd Chisolm, Dante, Jose Dominicano, Willie Estrada, Eddie Ramundy, Willie ( Wip ) Rivera, Debbie Benitez, Gladys Rodriguez, Maggie Solis, Denise Florentino, all of which were members of the Latin Symbolics Dance Company, based at 333 East 149th St. in the South Bronx.

" Two such independent dancers that became well known for " routine-ing " were known as simply Enoch and Papo from The Latin Symbolics Dance Team from the Bronx in the early 1970s.

Symbolics refers to two companies: now-defunct 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.

Genera is a commercial operating system and development environment for Lisp machines developed by Symbolics.

It is essentially a fork of an earlier operating system originating on the MIT AI Lab's Lisp machines which Symbolics had used in common with LMI and Texas Instruments.

Symbolics developed new Lisp Machines and published the operating system under the name Genera.

Symbolics developed Genera based on this foundation of the MIT Lisp machine operating system.

Symbolics improved the operating system software from the original MIT Lisp Machine and expanded it.

Some of the older parts of the Genera operating system have been rewritten in Symbolics Common Lisp and the Common Lisp Object system.

Symbolics then developed a radically new windowing system named Dynamic Windows with a presentation-based user interface.

* Symbolics Joshua, an expert system shell

* Symbolics Macsyma, a computer algebra system

e. g. on the Lisp Machine and then at Symbolics with the Genera ( operating system )

Genera from Symbolics is an operating system for Lisp Machines written in ZetaLisp and Symbolics Common Lisp.