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"In 1992, Symbolics Inc. was doing poorly financially because it was continuing to sell hardware and its computers were not hitting the price point demanded by
by kristianp 7y ago
"In 1992, Symbolics Inc. was doing poorly financially because it was continuing to sell hardware and its computers were not hitting the price point demanded by the market. A last-minute effort was underway to produce a software-only emulator of the architecture".
The emulator they built Open Genera was for the Alpha, and after Symbolics the defuncted ported to Linux 64bit: https://static.loomcom.com/genera/genera-install.html https://static.loomcom.com/genera/genera-install.html
- varjag 7y agoThere's a Docker recipe for it too: https://github.com/sethm/docker-vlm https://github.com/sethm/docker-vlm
- kristianp 7y agoThat repo is 3 years old. Does it work with more recent versions of Docker? (I'm on windows right now, so can't check, as it requires NFS on the host).
- pfdietz 7y agoAt that point it had been figured out how to safely and efficiently implement Common Lisp on 32 bit stock hardware (workstations, then PCs), which of course was going to economically destroy specialized machines. What standardization of CL also has done is restrain the commercial lisp implementation vendors, since they compete against standard-compliant free implementations.