Plate III. The Cathedral of Rules, 1980–1987
The LISP machine market collapses
Cheaper general-purpose workstations undercut specialised LISP machines; the expert-systems industry contracts and a second AI winter sets in.
Note on the date: The second winter (~1987–1993) is a convention.
Date confidence: medium
Sources
- AI winter, Wikipedia secondary
- Lisp machine, Wikipedia secondary