Re:Run Lisp machine emulator on Linux
by Zambyte on Friday January 19, 2024 @01:33PM
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Obviously this is more true to actual Lisp machines than Emacs, but in practice how different of a UX would this be? Ignoring the huge ecosystem around Emacs, it seems like the main difference is being able to save the application state and restore it at a later time. Are there any other major differences?
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see for example two Symbolics applications demoed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQKlgza_HgE
first demo is about Paintamation, a 2,5d paint and animation application
the second demo is demoing the 3d modeler and the 3d animation application
running on the Symbolics with a b&w console, a color screen & framebuffer, a Lisp keyboard and a pen tablet
All the code was written in object-oriented Lisp.
hehe, I rewatched this just two days ago, it's still very impressive. Had a symbolics relapse after finding about kaveh kardan involvment with them and his blog/snippets https://scribe.rip/@kaveh808/rediscovering-common-lisp-57f5c...
Completely unrelated, but I think "symbolics.com" was the absolutely first domain registered. Also thanks for the video :) :) :)
> but I think "symbolics.com" was the absolutely first domain registered
no quite, there were a few earlier domains registered. But it's the first .com domain registered.
More like created, registration process was not open.
Was there anything but the darpa domains and nordu.net before symbolics?
ah yes - thanks for the correction! It was the first .com indeed.
Think about the bootloader landing on Emacs, being graphical based not text, compiling elisp to native code, the image based, systems programming forms for elisp, the whole OS infrastructure and graphical applications, that is how much it is missing from Emacs.