[plt-scheme] Symbolics

PLT already boots off the hardware using OSKit.

Jay

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Johan Coppieters <johan577 at mac.com> wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>
>> Johan Coppieters.
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