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Makes me miss Lisp machines :-/
by tsally 16y ago
Makes me miss Lisp machines :-/
- rbanffy 16y agoI keep trying to convince myself I should learn some HDL. Reconstructing a Lisp machine would be a nice project. A fully functional Lisp machine with a USB keyboard and mouse to match would be the ultimate übergeek gift. A small Alto would also be pretty neat. The vertical screen could be tricky.
- jcl 16y agoHere's a guy implementing a Lisp machine on a FPGA: http://www.aviduratas.de/lisp/lispmfpga/ http://www.aviduratas.de/lisp/lispmfpga/
- torpor 16y agoI just have to ask why? What is so neat about it? Please enlighten ..
- rbanffy 16y agoThe Alto was, IIRC, the first machine with a bit-mapped display, overlapping windows, Smalltalk, a mouse... Seriously: more than once we have lost a technology because we turned the other way at some point. The Lisa'a stationery idea is one example off the top of my mind of a great idea that was not only ahead of its time but ahead of our time. We install programs and run them to create documents instead of using a desktop to create a document of a new type that the program we installed happens to support. I like to joke Smalltalk 80 made Java 2010 look primitive. I am only half joking on that.
- ippisl 16y agothere are higher level HDL's , that are c-like. i know of impulse c. it gives you more power , and you suffer some loss of speed/efficency(as usuall) . might make it simple enough to develop a lisp machine.
- pietrofmaggi 16y agoYou can give a try to ARMPIT SCHEME, an interpreter for the Scheme language (lexically-scoped dialect of Lisp) that runs on RISC microcontrollers with ARM core. http://armpit.sourceforge.net/ http://armpit.sourceforge.net/