This is a neat article with a lot of embedded gems about how to go about this kind of project. I tried google-joining the Steve Russell of Spacewar!/Lisp fame

This is a neat article with a lot of embedded gems about how to go about this kind of project. I tried google-joining the Steve Russell of Spacewar!/Lisp fame with the Steve Russell who wrote optlink. Unfortunately for a good story, it didn't produce anything, so I guess they're not the same guy. In the process, though, I found several old posts in which Walter Bright raved about optlink and how good (that) Steve Russell was. Fascinating stuff.