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There's a person devoted to basically (as I take it) re-designing the Lisp Machine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_

by wfn 14y ago

There's a person devoted to basically (as I take it) re-designing the Lisp Machine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine) from the bottom-up on modern hardware (in the "let's design (say) a microcontroller using modern hardware assemblage/etc. tools/knowledge" sense) - the blog is at http://www.loper-os.org http://www.loper-os.org ; from the blog: - posts tagged under 'Hardware': http://www.loper-os.org/?cat=7 http://www.loper-os.org/?cat=7 - posts tagged under 'LoperOS': http://www.loper-os.org/?cat=11 http://www.loper-os.org/?cat=11 - the 'About' page (an interesting read, but not sure if it's the most concise/on-topic expose to the project; but it presents the author's frame of mind / angle of approach I suppose): http://www.loper-os.org/?p=8 http://www.loper-os.org/?p=8

lispm 14y ago
Vaporware.
erikj 14y ago
His project seems to be dead by now, no updates in a long time.
- wfn 14y ago
  That might be (though if you browse under 'Hardware' or 'LoperOS', you'll find relatively recent posts; his updates are generally scarce throughout in any case) - I'd say this is one of those really long-term (indeed, vaporware as of now) projects that might not make it, but hey. In any regard, I'm quite sure the author himself sees this as a really long-term affair and treats it as a free-time-after-work kind of thing. [0] I mean for what he's set out to accomplish, it's a huge undertaking. Perhaps an over-ambitious overkill, but I for one try to follow his (frustratingly infrequent) updates because (1) it's a really interesting idea and (2) I like his perspective and I think some of the people here might share a subset of his views (it's not difficult to spot them, as he rants relatively often;). [0] http://www.loper-os.org/?p=562 http://www.loper-os.org/?p=562
- asciilifeform 14y ago
  Author of linked project speaking. The latter is not dead, but closed-source (for the time being.) And moving very slowly, given that I am involved in several commercial projects which eat most of my time.

by wfn 14y ago

lispm 14y ago

Vaporware.

erikj 14y ago

His project seems to be dead by now, no updates in a long time.

wfn 14y ago
That might be (though if you browse under 'Hardware' or 'LoperOS', you'll find relatively recent posts; his updates are generally scarce throughout in any case) - I'd say this is one of those really long-term (indeed, vaporware as of now) projects that might not make it, but hey. In any regard, I'm quite sure the author himself sees this as a really long-term affair and treats it as a free-time-after-work kind of thing. [0] I mean for what he's set out to accomplish, it's a huge undertaking. Perhaps an over-ambitious overkill, but I for one try to follow his (frustratingly infrequent) updates because (1) it's a really interesting idea and (2) I like his perspective and I think some of the people here might share a subset of his views (it's not difficult to spot them, as he rants relatively often;). [0] http://www.loper-os.org/?p=562 http://www.loper-os.org/?p=562
asciilifeform 14y ago
Author of linked project speaking. The latter is not dead, but closed-source (for the time being.) And moving very slowly, given that I am involved in several commercial projects which eat most of my time.