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There was the Lisp-machines, Symbolics etc. I was lucky to be able to work on one. Then they went out of favor because of cheaper hardware that could run anythi

There was the Lisp-machines, Symbolics etc. I was lucky to be able to work on one. Then they went out of favor because of cheaper hardware that could run anything. But I wonder, what happened to the Lisp-machine software? Should it not be possible to run it on current day general purpose hardware even more snappily?

aidenn0 7y ago
OpenGenera ran on the DEC alpha; IIRC there was some attempts to port it to non-alpha systems. I've seen it running on an emulated alpha.
_delirium 7y ago
The short answer to what happened to Genera is that it's owned by a private holding company that bought up a bunch of Symbolics IP in the 1996 bankruptcy proceedings. They made one further release in 1998, and afaik haven't done any development on it since. Presumably there's some price at which they'd be willing to either open-source it or sell it to someone who would put dev resources into it, but that hasn't happened.
- jf 7y ago
  John Mallery owns the Genera IP and, from what I’ve heard, there doesn’t seem to be a price he’d be willing to accept for the IP.
  - _delirium 7y ago
    That's useful to know, thanks! Although not good news for it ever seeing the light of day.
kristianp 7y ago
Genera, the software implementation, can be run in a VM from linux. https://static.loomcom.com/genera/genera-install.html https://static.loomcom.com/genera/genera-install.html
- galaxyLogic 7y ago
  Looks great. I wonder why no further development, and why does it need a VM? Why couldn't it run on LISP?