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shadowgovt | 6 days ago

My favorite bit of SBCL trivia is the name: this is descended from Carnegie Mellon's build.

Steel. Bank.

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giraffe_lady|6 days ago

That's very fun and makes so much more sense than my half guess that it was from a defunct regional mid 20th century bank I had never heard of.

wiz21c|6 days ago

I don't get it :-(

wk_end|6 days ago

I think it's just that Andrew Carnegie made his fortune in the steel industry, and the Mellons made their fortune in banking.

ethagnawl|5 days ago

Wow. I'd always thought/assumed the S was in reference to (Guy) Steele.