Initial Success
The product the company ultimately shipped was an integrated Lisp IDE for Sun Microsystems' RISC hardware architecture—this sidestepped the principal failure of Lisp machines by in essence rewriting a lesser version of the Lisp machine IDE for use on a more cost-effective and less moribund architecture.
Despite its success in shipping its environment with many computer manufacturers like Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Groupe Bull, DEC, Lucid suffered several setbacks during this period that include losing their CEO to depression when the company failed to take off (he was replaced by Bob Kadarauch) and a failed venture trying to duplicate Symbolic's Lisp machine OS for an IBM workstation (the RT-PC). The fact that Lucid had no contact with actual customers meant that the systemic problems with the whole Lisp industry were exacerbated by a lack of feedback from the users.
In 1987, Gabriel resigned as President, but remained its CTO.
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