Symbolics Lisp Machine demo (2013) [video]

Re:Symbolics Lisp Machine demo (2013) [video] by musicale on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @11:58PM (#26965401)

> I am a little surprised though that nobody's written an operating system like this for standard hardware

You can run a bare metal Smalltalk-80 or Squeak on the Raspberry Pi.

https://github.com/michaelengel/crosstalk https://github.com/pablomarx/RaspberrySqueak

I think Pharo uses the Squeak VM so it could conceivably run on the bare metal Pi as well.

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Re:Symbolics Lisp Machine demo (2013) [video] by mark_l_watson on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @09:10AM (#26968897)

Thanks for mentioning Pharo Smalltalk, I wanted to widen the conversation also.

I had a Xerox 1108 Lisp Machine from 1982 to about 1986 (did a successful commercial expert system product and used it for technical demos for marketing).

I think that Pharo is the closest thing today to that good old Lisp Machine feeling/experience. An amazing development environment.

Today, I pay for LispWorks Professional that while a great developer experience, is not like a Lisp Machine. I find it easy to get people to pay me to do Lisp development, but not Smalltalk.

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Re:Symbolics Lisp Machine demo (2013) [video] by pjmlp on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @11:45AM (#26970698)

Pharo started as a Squeak fork, but I think they diverged quite a bit by now though.

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