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The Symbolics software is still proprietary, I think. The MIT CADR software is available and can run under emulation, but last I heard it was not all the way t
by throwaway81523 5y ago
The Symbolics software is still proprietary, I think. The MIT CADR software is available and can run under emulation, but last I heard it was not all the way there. I'm sure some people here know more about it than I do.
- imglorp 5y agoYes, see http://symbolics-dks.com http://symbolics-dks.com I once spoke to David once asking if they would open source the UI for posterity and he politely replied in the negative. There are a few MacIvory installations left floating around so they might have a support contract stream (I'm guessing) although I'm not sure what other possible income they hope will be coming. The preservation part is becoming most acute as there will soon be zero hardware and zero people who can get this into digital museum status.
- rjsw 5y agoThe MIT CADR software can also run on an FPGA. The main problem with it is that we only have a saved image from a pre-Common Lisp version, there are sources and compiled files for a later version that does implement Common Lisp as well but so far we have not worked out a way to get an updated image. There is an emulator for the LMI Lambda hardware that can run an improved version of the final LMI software.