sometimes I like to imagine the alternate reality where Lisp machines became tinkering tools instead of getting bought out and made proprietary by early AI grifters
damn that’s awesome! I’ve actually been looking for a good way to emulate an LMI machine. do you know if it’ll need a supporting file server to boot up right, like the MIT machines and a lot of the symbolics ones did?
I’ve got a project I need to finish off that starts up the exact archaic services and undocumented configuration that the unofficial x86-64 port of the symbolics VLM needs to boot and instantiate a new Lisp world on a NixOS system, with a full VT to itself. I got it to a point where it was surprisingly usable, then some crazy asshole in the Lisp community made a weird legal threat cause I didn’t pay $50k to a dead company for a genera site license and I got pissed off and shelved the project
It’s self-contained, the weirdest part for getting it booted up is telneting to the SDU for the init commands. No extra file servers needed.
The LAMBDADELTA emulator and the Bogodyne project are/were both ran by the same person. AFAICT they managed to get the proper permissions for their LMI Zetalisp fork from Greenblatt & co. themselves and therefore should be more or less safe from the Symbolics IP guy. Too bad some real life type stuff seems to have gotten in the way of progress but the latest release is really cool as is.
sometimes I like to imagine the alternate reality where Lisp machines became tinkering tools instead of getting bought out and made proprietary by early AI grifters
Typing parenthesis in ZWEI inside some old IRC friend’s LMI box emulator pretending to live in a timeline where RMS’s printer was fine.
Not sure it’s that much better there tbh.
damn that’s awesome! I’ve actually been looking for a good way to emulate an LMI machine. do you know if it’ll need a supporting file server to boot up right, like the MIT machines and a lot of the symbolics ones did?
I’ve got a project I need to finish off that starts up the exact archaic services and undocumented configuration that the unofficial x86-64 port of the symbolics VLM needs to boot and instantiate a new Lisp world on a NixOS system, with a full VT to itself. I got it to a point where it was surprisingly usable, then some crazy asshole in the Lisp community made a weird legal threat cause I didn’t pay $50k to a dead company for a genera site license and I got pissed off and shelved the project
It’s self-contained, the weirdest part for getting it booted up is telneting to the SDU for the init commands. No extra file servers needed.
The LAMBDADELTA emulator and the Bogodyne project are/were both ran by the same person. AFAICT they managed to get the proper permissions for their LMI Zetalisp fork from Greenblatt & co. themselves and therefore should be more or less safe from the Symbolics IP guy. Too bad some real life type stuff seems to have gotten in the way of progress but the latest release is really cool as is.
oh fuck, if work and getting the SneerClub archive finished doesn’t destroy me tonight, I’m gonna spend so many hours fucking with this