Re:Architecture of Lisp Machines (2008) [pdf]
by jacquesm on Friday July 02, 2021 @06:46PM
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In a way that's great: it will be lightning fast compared to running on the original hardware (many orders of magnitude) and it won't be affected by all the bloat that they didn't tack on during the last 30 years.
Re:Architecture of Lisp Machines (2008) [pdf]
by eschaton on Friday July 02, 2021 @07:04PM
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The owner of the Symbolics IP is an unbelievable idiot for not making sure the modern emulator is distributed far and wide, with source, so people can experiment with and enhance it. That’s the only value it holds today but they seem determined to squander it by not putting it out.
I'm out
Re:Architecture of Lisp Machines (2008) [pdf]
by eschaton on Friday July 02, 2021 @08:35PM
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Why’s that? You support keeping everything related to Symbolics locked up and hidden from the public? It’s 30 years old, it has no actual value besides research.
There are people who work on preserving and making sure it can become available one day.
They will also give you that answer, for various reasons.
Re:Architecture of Lisp Machines (2008) [pdf]
by smackeyacky on Friday July 02, 2021 @07:14PM
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That would let too many people into the Lisp priesthood, can't have that kind of shenanigans going on.
The Symbolics system is only available as a pirated and slighty buggy software for Linux (also in VM running Linux). A better version exists, but that one is only available in limited commercial form. It's another parallel universe from 30 years ago. Most development basically stopped mid 90s.