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Don't forget dedicated "delivery" 36xx series machines from Symbolics, which were lower priced specifically because they weren't supposed to be used with the de
by p_l 4y ago
Don't forget dedicated "delivery" 36xx series machines from Symbolics, which were lower priced specifically because they weren't supposed to be used with the development environment.
- lispm 4y agoFor those there was also a system called "Firewall", which shields the end user from the underlying Lisp in some way. Then there were also delivery systems on the Ivory. There was even a stripped down Lisp operating system called Minima for those, IIRC.
- p_l 4y agoMinima was, AFAIK, special real-time variant of the Genera system, with noticeable differences - it also ran a different firmware at least on Ivory (differences in FEP<->OS interface from what I figured spelunking in code). Minima was also used for some debug tooling for building the machines themselves, iirc.
- lispm 4y agoA customer wanted to have multiple nodes running Minima for a network switch, IIRC. Having Genera/Ivory boards in a Mac was also seen as a delivery vehicle. For example: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/symbolics/software/genera_8/MacIvory_Delivery_User_s_Manual.pdf http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/symbolics/software/genera_8/Mac... "MacIvory Delivery is not suitable for application development or debugging.... MacIvory Delivery is tailored for delivery environments"