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781.
by mepian 8y ago
I wonder what he thinks about the end of Moore's law.
782.
35C3 – Taming the Chaos: Can we build systems that actually work?(youtube.com)
4 points by mepian 8y ago|0 comments
783.
by mepian 8y ago
Plenty of literature, including schematics, can be found here: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/ http://bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/alto/
784.
by mepian 8y ago
Common Lisp is fine for bit-twiddling, you can see it for yourself if you read this chapter in Practical Common Lisp: http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/practical-parsing-binary-fil... The FFI of Common Lisp is on par wit
785.
Tech’s Masturbatory Historiography(medium.com)
6 points by mepian 8y ago|0 comments
786.
by mepian 8y ago
What is his current email address? The one at symbolics-dks.com?
787.
Alpha Architecture, Lecture by Richard L. Sites and Dirk Meyer (1992)(youtube.com)
2 points by mepian 8y ago|0 comments
788.
by mepian 8y ago
That's not uncommon for DSP chips.
789.
by mepian 8y ago
You can also get the version of Macsyma that runs on Lisp machines, and it's possible to run it without owning a Lisp machine.
790.
by mepian 8y ago
OpenDoc is unnecessary on Lisp machines, in Genera you can already build applications by combining any CLOS classes that exist in the system. There is no rigid "application" black box that needs to be broken down into OpenDoc comp
791.
by mepian 8y ago
Wait, what do you mean? The current owner of Symbolics authorized the development of a new I-Machine emulator? Who is working on it, Kalman Reti and Brad Parker? This is very interesting news, please elaborate.
792.
E-beam Lithography – Making Tiny Things with Electron Microscope(youtube.com)
4 points by mepian 8y ago|0 comments
793.
How DEC developed Alpha (1992)(ieeexplore.ieee.org)
2 points by mepian 8y ago|0 comments
794.
Video Ethnography of ICARUS on the Xerox Alto(youtube.com)
1 points by mepian 8y ago|0 comments
795.
by mepian 8y ago
There was Windows NT Workstation, which was the best option for running CAD software on PC for some time.
796.
by mepian 8y ago
It's always great to see new people work on their own programming languages, but I have to ask: why a tree-walking interpreter? This is probably the least optimal way to implement a language, whether you are a beginner or not. While in
797.
Lessons Learned Implementing Common Lisp with LLVM(youtube.com)
4 points by mepian 8y ago|0 comments
798.
by mepian 8y ago
VLSI design is pretty complex, yet Chuck Moore figured it out in mere 500 lines of Forth and successfully manufactured chips designed with his own tools: https://colorforth.github.io/vlsi.html
799.
by mepian 8y ago
Someone at UC Berkeley is already adding hardware-assisted GC to a RISC-V core: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~maas/papers/maas-asbd16-hw...
800.
by mepian 8y ago
Perhaps the open-sourced software for the original MIT CADR Lisp machine could be used as the starting point: https://github.com/mietek/mit-cadr-system-software
801.
by mepian 8y ago
Andreas Olofsson and his team at Adapteva have demonstrated that it's possible for a small experienced team to design and launch a niche processor and a single-board computer board similar to the Raspberry Pi around it within a relativ
802.
Lisp Machine Inc. K-machine (2001)(fare.tunes.org)
114 points by mepian 8y ago|74 comments
803.
by mepian 8y ago
Reading this makes me wish Adderall was legal in my country.
804.
by mepian 8y ago
This doesn't seem to deter the users of TypeScript, one of the languages that made it to this top 10 ranking.
805.
by mepian 8y ago
Yes, but that's not the point: you don't have to write JavaScript yourself.
806.
by mepian 8y ago
Are you aware that one language can be compiled to another?
807.
by mepian 8y ago
This kind of attitude towards less popular programming languages is very damaging to the field of software engineering. Domain-specific languages are our best tool to combat the excessive complexity of software. The difficulty of learning a
808.
Valve Planning VR Headset Bundled with ‘Knuckles’ Controllers and Half-Life VR(uploadvr.com)
2 points by mepian 8y ago|0 comments
809.
by mepian 8y ago
The slide about the operating systems of the 1980s ignores Lisp machines. Genera was not a "research system" and it had good performance. There was also Xerox Star's OS written in Mesa.
810.
Looking Back at Final Fantasy VI Tech Demo with Kazuyuki Hashimoto (2017)(youtube.com)
1 points by mepian 8y ago|0 comments

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