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> This is a tongue in cheek but also piece of shit MIT propaganda piece mostly written by the clowns who created the abortions that were Multics and LISPMs. Su
by delish 8y ago
> This is a tongue in cheek but also piece of shit MIT propaganda piece mostly written by the clowns who created the abortions that were Multics and LISPMs.
Sure--the people who wrote systems with opposing philosophies to the "unix philosophy" are going to be the ones who write this book. And that they failed-in-the-market ("abortions") is already evident by the fact that HN is probably majority unix (mac) or unix-like (linux).
I confess I'm one of those people who has never used a lisp machine, and admires them greatly. I'd love to hear specific reasons I shouldn't admire them.
- systemBuilder 8y agoLISPms, Multics, Symbolics machines all run instances of software that depended upon custom instructions, tailored precisely for the languages which they executed, and could not be ported to any other machine.
- mruts 8y agoOpenGenera was ported to ALPHA64. Also, a VM exists for Linux/OSX. It works pretty okay. https://github.com/ynniv/opengenera https://github.com/ynniv/opengenera you first have to get the opengenera sources, though. But they aren't hard to find.
- vermilingua 8y agoGiven that you're so opposed to custom instructions, I'm sure you also abstain from using x86, ARM, etc. which all now include custom in silico instructions for decoding, crypto, etc. Keep fighting the good fight, comrade.