[plt-scheme] Symbolics

I've been very happy with my Symbolics hardware for many years--- last
conference I saw their booth in was giving away very large drinking
cups ;-) Just the right size for milk shakes!

--hsm

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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