[plt-scheme] Symbolics

We can always try to build a Scheme OS on x86 architectures using parts of an open source (micro) kernel to talk to the hardware and implement all top layers in Scheme. Although I sure some people already did...  More a university project...

I've done it 25 years ago for a Smalltalk VM on bare M68000 hardware. Ofcourse the Smalltalk-80 image of Xerox contained already all top layers, like windowing and file systems. So it came down to implementing the VM, a memory manager and bitblt.

Johan.


On 15 Mar 2010, at 18:39, Doug Williams wrote:

> That level of usability is something I would love to see PLT Scheme achieve. I used them for many years and actually donated one to a computer museum about 10 years ago.
> 
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Johan Coppieters <johan577 at mac.com> wrote:
> The most beautiful thing I ever saw during my years in computer science at the Brussels Free University.
> 
> A Symbolics Lisp machine !
> 
> So open, so clean, so pure, well integrated, etc ...  these guys were good.
> Now it also seems they were the first ever to register a domain name: http://symbolics.com/
> 
> It seems the genera environment survied somewhere in a corner of the Internet.
> http://www.symbolics-dks.com/Genera-1.htm
> 
> Anyone an idea if the lisp sources are somewhere available?
> 
> The system was so open, that even the scheduler (that was ofcourse written in Lisp) could be changed while the system was running.
> 
> 
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