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Re:LispOS: Specification of a Lisp operating system (2013) [... by fiddlerwoaroof on Sunday February 10, 2019 @05:31AM (#19127211)
Symbolics Genera has a virtualized version that was used for production workloads.
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Re:LispOS: Specification of a Lisp operating system (2013) [... by imglorp on Sunday February 10, 2019 @08:09AM (#19127637)
It makes me sad how locked up and obscure Genera became. It could have been widespread and community developed and its ideas more pollinated into common use, if not for the business side.
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Re:LispOS: Specification of a Lisp operating system (2013) [... by pjmlp on Sunday February 10, 2019 @11:14AM (#19128346)
Just like UNIX would have been if it wasn't for Bell Labs being prevented to use it commercially.

The AT&T lawsuit against BSD only came after that prohibition was lifted.

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