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For those who don't get the lisp machine. imagine how you can inspect your browser, see the html/js, go to console, run commands modify programs etc. Imagine

For those who don't get the lisp machine. imagine how you can inspect your browser, see the html/js, go to console, run commands modify programs etc. Imagine doing that on your OS, that's the experience of Lisp machine.

Blikkentrekker 6y ago
Certainly that is the experience of a specific operating system, not a specific processor architecture. Such an operating system could conceivably run on any machine; it simply ran more efficiently on a Lisp machine.
- eschaton 6y ago
  Mezzano even demonstrates this by being a working operating system written in Common Lisp for x86-64 and arm64.
- aidenn0 6y ago
  Indeed, Open Genera ran on DEC Alpha workstations
agumonkey 6y ago
I feel that way everytime I use <browser> devtools.. and that's why I think the web is gonna be the only reincarnation of these lisp machines / smalltalk images
- pjmlp 6y ago
  That was my expectation for ChromeOS, but then Google borked the idea.
  - capableweb 6y ago
    Alternatively: your expectations were wrong and Google never aimed for anything like that
    - pjmlp 6y ago
      I haven't said otherwise, and you comment hardly contributed to the discussion. Naturally life doesn't always make our expectations reality.
      - agumonkey 6y ago
        But we should all expect reality not to do so :) Maybe the Pharo Guys will have a lucky encounter with a risc-v dude and they'll make the hardware+live software a new thing in 2025