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For 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
by lispm 4y ago
For 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"