ContrAltoJS Xerox Alto Emulator

[Herb Jellinek]

This just popped up on Hacker News.

https://archives.loomcom.com/contraltojs/

            Herb

[Larry Masinter]

Thanks; I added the link to

Interlisp | Zotero

The “See Also” category of links.

 

I’ve been asked more than once about “Alto Lisp”.

The problem was the Alto memory wasn’t big enough for the working set of Lisp and it spent all if it’s time paging – the reason I named my alto “Maytag”: the machine would rattle like a washer on spin cycle.

 

 

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[Michele Denber]

On 08-19-2021 11:45 PM, Larry Masinter wrote:

Thanks; I added the link to

Interlisp | Zotero

The “See Also” category of links.

 

I’ve been asked more than once about “Alto Lisp”.

The problem was the Alto memory wasn’t big enough for the working set of Lisp and it spent all if it’s time paging – the reason I named my alto “Maytag”: the machine would rattle like a washer on spin cycle.

That shouldn't be a problem when running it in Contralto.  Is there some way I could get a copy of Alto Lisp?  I'd really like to try it out.  I've looked everywhere.  Thanks.

            - Michele

[Larry Masinter]

What I remember (which is very fuzzy) is that there was never an Alto Lisp “release”.

I vaguely remember a kernel of lisp code with not enough room for anything.

Alto Lisp became Dorado Lisp as a more promising route.

 

 

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