Symbolics Lisp Machine Museum

Re:Symbolics Lisp Machine Museum by cat199 on Monday May 21, 2018 @01:36PM (#17120159)

also: dear symbolics, just open source it already..

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Re:Symbolics Lisp Machine Museum by mrbill on Monday May 21, 2018 @02:45PM (#17120696)

A lot of the IP is tied up in probate and the guy who owns the rights to most of it died a couple of years ago.

There's an emulator and ways to run it on a 64-bit *nix system if you know where to look..

There's a lot of effort "behind the scenes" to save/preserve/document as much of the stuff as possible.

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Re:Symbolics Lisp Machine Museum by ScottBurson on Monday May 21, 2018 @03:55PM (#17121293)

Andrew Topping died a dozen years ago. Surely the IP is out of probate by now?

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Re:Symbolics Lisp Machine Museum by mepian on Monday May 21, 2018 @05:18PM (#17121908)

In 2012 Kalman Reti, the last Symbolics hardware and software engineer, mentioned that John C. Mallery (of CL-HTTP fame) acquired the IP from the probate and was thinking about open-sourcing everything. That was a while ago, so I guess the new owner changed his mind or he is too busy with his cybersecurity business. I wonder if there is a way to convince him to do the right thing.

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