OS in lisp

RR

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Sep 21, 2003, 1:23:13 PM9/21/03

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are there any operating systems writen in lisp? I was just curious about
this.

-RR

Edi Weitz

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Sep 21, 2003, 2:09:16 PM9/21/03

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On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 13:23:13 -0400, "RR" <ergod...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> are there any operating systems writen in lisp? I was just curious
> about this.

Google for "Lisp Machine" and you'll find a considerable amount of
information about a class of machines which had an operating system
written entirely in Lisp.

For starters, you might want to look at Rainer Joswig's videos

<http://lemonodor.com/archives/000441.html>
<http://lemonodor.com/archives/000103.html>

which show how working with Lisp Machines was/is completely different
from working with today's "modern" operating systems.

Edi.

thelifter

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Sep 22, 2003, 1:00:30 AM9/22/03

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Yes,

there is a very famous one called EMACS:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html

Actually a lot of people would argue that Emacs is more than an OS,
for some people it is a religion or a way of life:

newsgroup: alt.religion.emacs
http://www.stallman.org/saint.html

"Yes, it is possible to be all things to all people, if you're talking
about Emacs."

Original quote from:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/gnuext/desc.html

You have the choice: love it or leave it!

Have fun!

thelifter

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Sep 22, 2003, 2:06:54 PM9/22/03

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This was meant as a response to the posting "OS in Lisp", I don't know
what went wrong.

Frank Roland

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Sep 22, 2003, 3:00:23 PM9/22/03

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"thelifter" <thel...@gmx.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Yes,
>
> there is a very famous one called EMACS:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html
>
> Actually a lot of people would argue that Emacs is more than an OS,
> for some people it is a religion or a way of life:
>

I would say that emacs is not an OS at all, its rather an editor, isn't it?

Regards

Frank

Pascal Bourguignon

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Sep 22, 2003, 3:48:34 PM9/22/03

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"Frank Roland" <ne...@frank-roland.de> writes:
> I would say that emacs is not an OS at all, its rather an editor, isn't it?

You know a lot of editors that contain:

- news readers,
- email clients,
- irc clients,
- web browser,
- file managers,
- http servers,
- ftp clients,
- database managers,
- psychological assistant AI,
- games,
- lisp development environment (editor ok, compiler, debugger),
- that can fork processes, shells, etc...

Have a look at Oberon (the language) and Oberon (the operating system)
to see how one can consider emacs to be a OS in its own right too.

--
__Pascal_Bourguignon__
http://www.informatimago.com/
Do not adjust your mind, there is a fault in reality.

thelifter

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Sep 22, 2003, 9:02:55 PM9/22/03

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Yes,

there is a very famous one called EMACS:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html

Actually a lot of people would argue that Emacs is more than an OS,
for some people it is a religion or a way of life:

newsgroup: alt.religion.emacs

Shawn Betts

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Sep 23, 2003, 4:12:56 AM9/23/03

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"RR" <ergod...@yahoo.com> writes:

> are there any operating systems writen in lisp? I was just curious about
> this.

Not that I know of, but there's lots of talk...or should I say, used
to be lots of talk:

http://lists.tunes.org/mailman/listinfo/lispos/

Shawn