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by eschaton 9y ago
Why do you think so? Compiled Common Lisp can be quite fast.
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by eschaton 9y ago
How is this “Lisp-based” when it’s a wrapper around QtWebKit? I’d expect a “Lisp-based” browser to implement its rendering engine in Lisp, probably atop CLIM. Otherwise you’re just using Lisp as a scripting language to glue a couple prefab
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by eschaton 9y ago
This is basically Mach.
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by eschaton 9y ago
Honestly, not having a steady semiannual or annual release cadence—even if each release is a small increment over the last—has probably held Haiku back more than anything else. Many people don't want to even try nightly builds, so they
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by eschaton 9y ago
NetBSD will install & run in less, but you need to manually customize the installation and it requires a full 486 (with FPU) at minimum. It doesn't seem like it would be that hard for someone to bring back support for no-FPU Inte
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by eschaton 9y ago
If it was built for 486SX, you could probably run stock NetBSD decently on this system with performance not much different from when the system was new. Edit: Looks like you would be able to do a customized low-memory/disk install of N
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by eschaton 9y ago
It wasn't "almost" a predecessor to C, it was a direct predecessor.
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by eschaton 9y ago
You should be using the methods on the URL struct to compose a URL, rather than string interpolation. You wouldn't use string interpolation or concatenation to compose an SQL query, would you?
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by eschaton 9y ago
The 68030 had a great on-chip MMU in 1987, three years after the 68020 and its off-chip 68851 (which added a wait state). You're thinking of the 68040, which brought the FPU on-chip as well.
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by eschaton 9y ago
This is just more security theater to ensure the easily terrorized remain compliant with the whims of law enforcement, not something that will actually make people safer. In fact, putting a whole lot of high-capacity lithium-based batteries
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by eschaton 10y ago
This is great to see! Works well too, it was very easy to build and run using SDL2 on macOS 10.12.
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by eschaton 10y ago
Actually, things like voter ID requirements and DMV closings are specifically about putting up barriers to voting for people who do have the right to vote, by making it (in some cases) much harder to meet the requirements to exercise their
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by eschaton 10y ago
Indeed, if you lived through the Reagan years, with its first national-level surge of right-wing political Christianity in decades (one which still hadn't abated), Atwood's book doesn't seem all that out there after all.
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by eschaton 10y ago
A systems programming language need not eschew GC. Zetalisp and Common Lisp are perfectly fine for Lisp Machine operating system implementation, without falling back to a language other than assembly for isolated bits of the very lowest-lev
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by eschaton 10y ago
Symbolics Genera doesn't pass S-expressions (i.e. text) between processes, it passed objects. Everything runs in a single address space so this is cheap and accurate. Also, ZetaLisp and Common Lisp have way more types than those suppor
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by eschaton 10y ago
I'd like to see some comparison with the STREAMS layered/stackable API from SVR4 which let a developer do just the sort of layering this API proposes. What makes it better than STREAMS, does it share the same pitfalls, etc.?
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by eschaton 10y ago
Lisp Machines had general tree editing facilities.
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by eschaton 10y ago
Not much; Zorro is basically the 68000 bus protocol, while NuBus is more general. But it's just a multiplexed address/data bus with a selectable 8/16/32-bit l word size for data transfers, it can be implemented with a si
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by eschaton 10y ago
I don't see what the point of USB or networking would be; a NuBus Mac can use an Ethernet card perfectly well, and why would you want to use a USB keyboard or mouse with a classic Mac. Really the big interfacing issue with a classic Ma
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by eschaton 10y ago
I still hope to design a NuBus equivalent. Your work is inspiring. :)
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by eschaton 10y ago
You don't stuff it with serial cards, you add serial concentrators like the HP-2345A to your network. You can add dozens and dozens of ports that way, for cheap!
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by eschaton 10y ago
Note: Not actually native, it's apparently a weird hybrid JavaScript thing rather than a Cocoa app. At least it's not just a wrapper around a WebView. And if that weren't enough, it has some weird server component that's
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by eschaton 10y ago
Don't say "interpreter" if you don't mean it. In the vast majority of cases, Common Lisp is a compiled language.
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by eschaton 10y ago
Why does the web site refer to "Lisp interpreters?" That phrasing perpetuates mistaken assumptions about Lisp-family languages, both about their implementation and their performance.
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by eschaton 10y ago
Exactly, which is about as common as nonstop paging on a Unix system, and as sensible as a criticism.
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by eschaton 10y ago
It's not native.
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by eschaton 10y ago
I say "browser-based" because Slack, HipChat, et al are chat platforms you need to use a browser — or something that embeds a browser, like their official apps — to access. They may have gateways to standard protocols like IRC, bu
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by eschaton 10y ago
How is browser-based chat like Slack "the latest innovative technology?" It's just IRC or Zephyr, but accessed via a browser. It's not something people didn't have in the early 1990s. Hell, it's not substantial
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by eschaton 10y ago
I'm constantly amazed by professionals who complain about their email inbox. Do they not bother to learn their tools, and set up simple mail filters? Mailing lists are actually one of the best collaboration tools available because: (1)
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by eschaton 10y ago
At the largest CS schools there was some use of a federated Zephyr system for a while from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s. While Zephyr the protocol isn't great, the culture was. And being based on an open protocol and Open Source co

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