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Graham Hughes

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Jan 10, 1998, 3:00:00 AM1/10/98
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As a relative young'un who's interested in the old Symbolics Lisp
Machines, are there any documents on the Web describing their UI and
how they worked? I ask because the Lisp Machine was famed for its
ease of programming, much like the old Smalltalk environments were;
I'd just like to what it was like to use such a beast.

Basically, I'm interested in how a good Lisp oriented environment
would work; the only example I have at hand is Emacs, which is
fascinating, but only one data point.
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Martti Halminen

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Jan 12, 1998, 3:00:00 AM1/12/98
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Graham Hughes wrote:
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> As a relative young'un who's interested in the old Symbolics Lisp
> Machines, are there any documents on the Web describing their UI and
> how they worked? I ask because the Lisp Machine was famed for its
> ease of programming, much like the old Smalltalk environments were;
> I'd just like to what it was like to use such a beast.
>
> Basically, I'm interested in how a good Lisp oriented environment
> would work; the only example I have at hand is Emacs, which is
> fascinating, but only one data point.

Last spring there was a large burst of interest in creating a new
Lisp-based OS, which regretfully seems to have mostly quieted down with
no tangible results. The mailing list traffic contained quite a lot of
references to the way things were done on the various Lisp Machines.
Archived at least at
http://cathcart.sysc.pdx.edu/lispos/ml/index.html
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Jrm

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Jan 12, 1998, 3:00:00 AM1/12/98
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Martti Halminen wrote in message <34B9CD...@dpe.fi>...


>Last spring there was a large burst of interest in creating a new
>Lisp-based OS, which regretfully seems to have mostly quieted down with
>no tangible results. The mailing list traffic contained quite a lot of
>references to the way things were done on the various Lisp Machines.
>Archived at least at
>http://cathcart.sysc.pdx.edu/lispos/ml/index.html


See also http://www.eval-apply.com/LispOS/
(case matters)

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