do you know if its possible to find emulators? or even the machines themselves?
thanks!
There is an emulator available as a commercial product to those few folks who have a symbolics application still running. My coworker who used to work for symbolics has a lisp machine sitting in his den. And yes, it works.
I know one written in elisp... :)
Emacs is a good editor, but you can't seriously consider it an OS -- it doesn't even have threading.
I am living in one right now and it doesn't feel like it is not.