Symbolics and lisp machines.
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2014 3:25 am
Hi,
I found the manuals on bitsavers for the lisp OS, but what I am curious about is where the source code is for these machines? I was always curious how the bofins at symbolics managed to get lisp running on the metal - how the system programming worked ect..
For low hanging fruit stuff - it seems like Clisp is pretty straight forward to manipulate the shell ect.. would be a nice project to see how much of a vanila debian install could be done in lisp. I would imagine this was a fairly common project idea so I was a bit suprised there is little information about how to go about this.
I found the manuals on bitsavers for the lisp OS, but what I am curious about is where the source code is for these machines? I was always curious how the bofins at symbolics managed to get lisp running on the metal - how the system programming worked ect..
For low hanging fruit stuff - it seems like Clisp is pretty straight forward to manipulate the shell ect.. would be a nice project to see how much of a vanila debian install could be done in lisp. I would imagine this was a fairly common project idea so I was a bit suprised there is little information about how to go about this.