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by amszmidt 2y ago
Not entirely there yet ... Some parts of have been re-licensed, some have been licensed under the old non-free software SDK license. E.g, https://github.com/bitwarden/sdk-internal/commit/db648d7ea85...
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by amszmidt 2y ago
And SEND is just a macro over FUNCALL. (DEFMACRO SEND (OBJECT OPERATION &REST ARGUMENTS) "Send a message to OBJECT, with operation OPERATION and ARGUMENTS." `(FUNCALL ,OBJECT ,OPERATION . ,ARGUMENTS))
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by amszmidt 2y ago
I find it strange that you are labelling ten/tie/.. as with gender. I don't know Slovak, but I'd expect it is the same as in Polish that the gender is on the subject. E.g., stôl is stół in Polish, and "męskorzeczo
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by amszmidt 2y ago
Let me elaborate slightly. For one, "męski męskożywotny" is not what it is called, it is just męskożywotny (the gender is already in the word, male male-animate, has a weird ring to it). But all that means is that the object is of
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by amszmidt 2y ago
Personal (męskoosobowy), animate (męskożywotny), and inanimate (męskorzeczowy) are not genders. Which is the same situation with Czech (životny - animate, etc). I’m Polish. And did study Polish on top of that.
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by amszmidt 2y ago
> In place of German's 4 cases, Czech has 7; in place of German's 3 genders, Czech has 4. (Czechs think there are 3, but really there are 4. Polish has 5.) Polish has 3 genders (masculine, feminine and neuter), just like Czech.
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by amszmidt 2y ago
It is possible, I did it. It isn't hard (mostly boring work with bunch of shims). The reason is as I said before, Genera is layers on top of an existing system that hasn't changed (much). E.g, DW is of flavours on top of TV (with
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by amszmidt 2y ago
Do you have any links or pointers to read up on that? How small runs and how much of a compromise on accuracy are we talking about?
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by amszmidt 2y ago
No idea, this is sorta the project that runs on fumes right now. Wanna do something together? The keycaps are always the issue, making, remaking the PCB for the keyboard is just a days work even making it work with something like QMK or s
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by amszmidt 2y ago
(I am slowly working on making a replica ... without arrows though)
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by amszmidt 2y ago
Yup! Feel free to prod me if you need help (forum, chat, mail ...).
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by amszmidt 2y ago
> Nobody will run Genera without TCP/IP and a lot of other stuff. Plenty of people still do, e.g. on a Ivory or 36xx machines. > I think that's pure fantasy. I ported the Dynamic Listener (with large parts of DW) a bunch of
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by amszmidt 2y ago
Much of the user experience of the Lisp Machine was just the console. Users would seldom interact directly with the actual hardware which would be in some lab or hall. You had special key sequences so you could even hard reboot the machin
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by amszmidt 2y ago
The jury is still out of how much official this is, seeing that the legal situation for Genera is a quagmire. Wilder is that the MIT Lisp Machine branch is also being actively developed, and it has a clear legal situation today. To the poin
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by amszmidt 2y ago
> Other symbolics extensions are of similar nature. Sure, and those extensions can run on the MIT Lisp Machine. But we are taking about the base system. Not extensions. And why one can take those systems and for the most part just run
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by amszmidt 2y ago
> ZWEI is no longer in the base system. EH does not exist, a Window system does not exist. Dynamic Windows is in the base system. Nobody will use Genera without Zmacs or the error handler (aka Debugger)… System 200 ran in the CADR and 36
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by amszmidt 2y ago
> I would guess that less than 20% of the core SYSTEM is essentially the same (but often quite a bit enhanced). For the rest of the software, I would think it's even less. ZWEI, TV and SI makes up the majority of the base system whi
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by amszmidt 2y ago
SI, Scheduler, GC, Flavor, EH, Compiler, TV, etc all date back to before Symbolics entered the picture. And if you don't see that in System 99 .. then you must not be looking very hard since they are explicitly mentioned there. You
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by amszmidt 2y ago
Nobody was saying that Genera didn't do anything novel, Dynamic Windows being one, and the Dynamic Listner being another. Overall, the guts are essentially the same, ZMacs, Zmail (also not part of the base System), Flavors, and anythi
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by amszmidt 2y ago
Very true, try doing a M-x Source Compare. Genera is backwards compatible with System 99. And any differences are trivial.
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by amszmidt 2y ago
Most of this ”technology” was created at the MIT AI Labs, Genera did a few cool things but in the grand scheme of things it is essentially not much (the Dynamic Listener probably being the most interesting thing, the rest of the system was
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by amszmidt 2y ago
Open in the "closed" sense. The legal status of anything from Symbolics is a minefield. Even this "portable Genera" might be of dubious legality... "Open" here was a popular term back in the day and bunch of
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by amszmidt 2y ago
Can it run on the MCU mentioned in the post? Somehow I doubt that. Can SBCL even target MCU boards like the pico?
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by amszmidt 2y ago
There are plenty of countries where all that is public information, back in the day there even used to be a phone book with .. name, phone number, and address. And many countries have this now in digital form.
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by amszmidt 2y ago
True, the absolutley first versions were entirely unusable. Glacial is what one of the authors said. First version of Unix had a 512k disk pack, and no shell -- that 80k binary for shell would have been a dream. "20 years later we had
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by amszmidt 2y ago
And CP/M wasn’t running the first versions of Lisp or Smalltalk. Your claim that Lisp and Smalltalk didn’t have the luxury of 80k when they got invented, when intact they did. Much of the programs that ranusing Lisp specifically was V
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by amszmidt 2y ago
Your not sharing the system with a dozen other people running Emacs and Macsyma :-)
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by amszmidt 2y ago
"20 years later" -- nobody was running IBM 705 in 1980 for Lisp or Smalltalk. The 7601 was backed by hard disk as well. These machines used quite a bit of paging. You are purposefully confusing multiple decades of computing. Sm
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by amszmidt 2y ago
I am quite aware of computer history. The Xerox Alto had between 90k and 512k of memory, and a disk drive that managed 2.5M. Lisp Machines required a 80M disk with at least 512k of memory. Neither Smalltalk nor Lisp fit in 64k in 1980 (~20
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by amszmidt 2y ago
No, they had the luxury of having much more.

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