But is it real empathy? Did they actually pause and feel bad and convert their emotional response to some written message?

Or did they just short circuit. "Dead relative -> Say sorry for your loss". Like an AI bot.

It's the second one.

I love this quote (from Interlisp-D: Overview and Status):

"Interlisp is a very large software system and large software systems are not easy to construct. Interlisp-D has on the order of 17,000 lines of Lisp code, 6,000 lines of Bcpl, and 4,000 lines of microcode."

So large. :)

http://www.softwarepreservation.net/projects/LISP/interlisp-...

My dad had childhood shoe shopping helped by xrays on the high street.

Or they should do what the chinese government does and subsize the hell out of the economy, rather than the military.

Most of the DC fast chargers I use have big generators hidden behind bushes.

And yet I can list a lot of things that Bell Labs did that changed the World, and yet I am struggling to name even one that came out of IBM Research. I'm not saying it didn't happen, I'm saying that work didn't resonate as strongly.

Intel makes the quark which is like a 486dx that runs on a watch battery. There are a few models now, but I think that qualifies?