mepian

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1. 631.▲
   by mepian 4y ago

   Decades old articles can trend here, HN is not limited to brand new content.
2. 632.▲
   by mepian 4y ago

   The author is Guy Steele (GLS in the story).
3. 633.▲
   by mepian 4y ago

   It's strange that the article ignores the Mansfield Amendment and the transformation of ARPA to DARPA.
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   by mepian 4y ago

   "But Ghostscript’s PDF interpreter was, as noted, written in PostScript, and PostScript is not a great language for handling error conditions and recovering." Isn't C, their chosen replacement of PostScript, also particularly
5. 635.▲
   by mepian 4y ago

   If I remember correctly, Google even contributes to SBCL because of that.
6. 636.▲
   by mepian 4y ago

   The game asks you whether you want standard joystick-based movement when you start it.
7. 637.▲
   by mepian 4y ago

   > Now if only the world could do that with GNU. What do you mean? GNU is not vaporware, many people use it on top of Linux. Do you mean GNU/Hurd?
8. 638.▲
   by mepian 4y ago

   It's a shame a stable ABI is declared as one of the non-goals, C++ is painful enough to integrate with other languages.
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   by mepian 4y ago

   I wonder how many of the contributors in Oracle are Sun veterans.
10. 640.▲
    by mepian 4y ago

    Sam Zeloof alone managed to manufacture chips with the early 1970s technology in his garage using old fab equipment bought cheap (sadly don't remember the exact budget): http://sam.zeloof.xyz/ Maybe with more people an
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    OpenVMS v9.2 for x86 is Available(vmssoftware.com)

    18 points by mepian 4y ago|5 comments
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    by mepian 4y ago

    Apple and NeXT is the only counterexample I can immediately think of.
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    by mepian 4y ago

    You can specify types in Common Lisp just fine if you so desire: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/type.html
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    Tron at 40: The groundbreaking Disney flop that stood the test of time(yahoo.com)

    3 points by mepian 4y ago|0 comments
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    Hans Moravec's Robot Predictions Evolution (2004)(frc.ri.cmu.edu)

    2 points by mepian 4y ago|0 comments
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    The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Posthuman Era (1993)(edoras.sdsu.edu)

    3 points by mepian 4y ago|0 comments
17. 647.▲
    by mepian 4y ago

    Is your work related in any way to Symbolics NS, beyond using the same language? Maybe you're reusing some public knowledge from the papers that were published about it? Is your team hiring? I'm working at Intel, though far from h
18. 648.▲
    by mepian 4y ago

    Intel is actually using Lisp in its tools? Can you tell more about your job?
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    by mepian 4y ago

    This is the chip Windows NT (the main ancestor of today's Windows) was initially targeted for, the name NT was derived from the chip's codename N10 (or N-Ten).
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    The Future of VR Displays: With Meta's Director of Display Systems Research(podcasts.apple.com)

    1 points by mepian 4y ago|0 comments
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    by mepian 4y ago

    Not to be confused with another IPL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Processing_Languag...
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    by mepian 4y ago

    For more context, here's the specification of its predecessor, the I-Machine: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/symbolics/I_Machine/I-Machine_A... A lecture at MIT about the I-Machine: https://www.
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    Sunstone – the last unreleased Lisp machine architecture from Symbolics [pdf](bitsavers.org)

    76 points by mepian 4y ago|12 comments
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    Dover Architecture – Hardware Enforcement of Software-Defined Security Policies [pdf](web.cs.wpi.edu)

    1 points by mepian 4y ago|0 comments
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    What's a condition system and why do you want one? (2011)(axisofeval.blogspot.com)

    2 points by mepian 4y ago|0 comments
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    by mepian 4y ago

    There are so-called neuromorphic chips from Intel and other companies that are intentionally trying to mimic biological brains as much as possible, but they are in the research stage right now and are not widely used yet.
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    Reimagining Apple's Bauhaus OS (2021)(mikelevins.github.io)

    6 points by mepian 4y ago|4 comments
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    For First Time in 20 Years, GAO Cannot Track Cost Performance for Weapon Systems(acquinsight.com)

    2 points by mepian 4y ago|0 comments
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    U.S. Gov Accountability Office – Weapon Systems Annual Assessment, June 2022 [pdf](gao.gov)

    1 points by mepian 4y ago|0 comments
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    by mepian 4y ago

    Alan Kay, one of PARC's most prominent researchers, recommends Waldrop's book The Dream Machine. Actually I think he has an account here on Hacker News.