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They would because Lisp Machines were not some magical functional machines but pretty much standard CPU designs of their era with additional hardware support fo
by dfox 14y ago
They would because Lisp Machines were not some magical functional machines but pretty much standard CPU designs of their era with additional hardware support for object memory (tagged pointers, GC...) and relatively large word size.
- jhuni 14y agoModern computer operating systems are systems of bloat. The amount of duplication between programming languages like C, C++, Objective C, C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl, Python, and Ruby, user programs, and applications is immense. To have a streamlined system that uses a single language all the way down to the machine itself, and that makes full use of the sharing capabilities of a single address space, would be truly magical!