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In the Lisp community, there's an infamous story of a Lisp Machine made out of Nokia Communicator (the early, DOS-based model with 80186 cpu) by Timo Noko using Nokolisp.

What happened was that the DOS flash image got corrupted somehow, so Noko implemented missing bits in his lisp implementation and made the phone boot directly into it. Since all the software he used was written in his Lisp, there was not much of a difference in usability :-)




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