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Possible additional point: going into the 80s/90s (the last gasps of "alternative" personal computing architecture), there were not many widely-adopted standard
by scroot 8y ago
Possible additional point: going into the 80s/90s (the last gasps of "alternative" personal computing architecture), there were not many widely-adopted standards across computing. This is why we all bitched about file incompatibility across systems etc. But now we have all of this great stuff: format standards, APIs, hell, even TCP/IP is a universal standard that allows all manner of exotic hardware to speak to the rest of the world.
I think something like Lisp/Smalltalk/SomethingNewOS machines might have another shot here soon, especially with the loss of gains from Moore's law
- 3rdAccount 8y agoI'd love to have a true Lisp or Smalltalk OS.
- scroot 8y agoClosest thing in development at the moment: https://github.com/nopsys/CogNOS https://github.com/nopsys/CogNOS
- gnulinux 8y agoI would buy a lisp machine the moment someone releases it. Of course, I'd be interested in actual competitive personal/embedded CPUs, not hobbyists attempts.
- rjsw 8y agoYou could try Mezzano [1]. [1] https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano/releases/tag/demo4 https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano/releases/tag/demo4