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Archive of Lisp Machine, Inc
- leoc 6y agoWhat is the legal status of this?
- rvense 6y agoAt a guess: somewhere in between "probably nobody cares" and "clone quickly if you're interested"...
- diggan 6y agoThe company also haven't been around since 1986, so unless there is some litigious people who used to work there/owned the company, it's hard to imagine someone will do something substantial about this repository.
- rurban 6y agoLitigious people: check. Working with some strange partners, you don't want to mess with: check.
- phoe-krk 6y agoThe second repository of this user seems to have been hanging on GitHub for years (judging by commit history; could have been uploaded later). Still, it seems so far that no one cares about this repo.
- mepian 6y agoAll of the assets of the last owner of this IP were seized by the Canadian government: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_Machines#GigaMos_Systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_Machines#GigaMos_Systems
- rwmj 6y agoThat's even more intriguing. I assume sadly that it would now be under "Crown Copyright", which is like normal copyright but in just about every respect worse - for one thing Crown Copyright has no time limit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_copyright https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_copyright
- chungus_khan 6y agoI'm not sure it would, this IP wasn't "prepared or published by or under the direction or control of Her Majesty or any government department".
- rbanffy 6y agoFor the curious, there is more information on the K-machine here: http://fare.tunes.org/tmp/emergent/kmachine.htm http://fare.tunes.org/tmp/emergent/kmachine.htm
- dan-robertson 6y agoHere’s some meeting notes I found browsing around https://github.com/jrm-code-project/LISP-Machine/blob/master/gigamos/rg/nov-12-mtg.txt https://github.com/jrm-code-project/LISP-Machine/blob/master... Probably this meeting was quite late, prospects seem quite bleak
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- lioeters 6y agoGreat find, thanks for the link! > We are down to our last chance. We have to stop doing stupid things immediately. > We are up against a large, well financed company which is basically doing intelligent things. If we cannot achieve "war-time" type unity and work intensity levels, we have no chance and should quit now. I was going to say, the wording of this is very questionable; if the marketing department is using phrases like "stupid things" and "should quit now", it's definitely time to quit. But on learning more about the history of Lisp Machines, Inc., especially at this point when it was reincarnated as GigaMos Systems - these meeting notes are just further confirmation that the company was doomed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_Machines#GigaMos_Systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_Machines#GigaMos_Systems
- rjsw 6y agoThere is an emulator to run this [1]. [1] https://github.com/dseagrav/ld https://github.com/dseagrav/ld
- mst 6y agoAnd bitsavers appears to have the documentation: http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/lmi/LMI_Docs/ http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/lmi/LMI_Docs/
- pmiller2 6y agoBut, what about the keyboard[0]? ;) --- [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard
- pedrow 6y agoI was fascinated by purpose of those 'emojis' (thumb up etc) on the right of the keyboard. But Xah Lee says they are "not documented in manual. Not used by default" [0] [0]:http://xahlee.info/kbd/space-cadet_keyboard.html http://xahlee.info/kbd/space-cadet_keyboard.html
- lovelyviking 6y agovery interesting review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDozftThFMw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDozftThFMw 7:25 here he says those appears to be arrows keys ?
- pedrow 6y agoGood point as the keyboard doesn't otherwise have any arrow keys ... though the later Symbolics keyboard, which lacks these emoji keys, doesn't have arrow keys either.
- Jach 6y agoI've been told that you could use the thumbs-up/thumbs-down keys to respond to prompts from programs asking you yes/no with the 'yes-or-no-p function.
- Despacito2019 6y agoI am always amazed the kind of dedication people has for niche computer history! kudo to them!
- mjh21 6y agoHave to say this is why HN is great. My dad’s been very sick (Parkinson’s) for the last couple of years and we haven’t been able to talk much about his old work on Lisp. Pretty cool to be able to grep for holloway and see snippets of what he was up to a few decades ago. Thanks to whoever put this together and posted.