Interlisp status

[Larry Masinter]

We met this morning (Bob, Paul, Larry, Michele, Nick, Ron).

Apologies for crummy notes, this is a great project for memory

Ron’s in the middle of Unicode / XCCS hacking, having trouble with LLREAD.

Nick is cleaning up the Maiko files

 

We talked about copyright and LICENSE

 

I put MIT license at

GitHub/Interlisp/medley  and GitHub/Interlisp/maiko

Check it out

 

I was trying to compare Ron’s Dropbox/  with GitLab/masinter/Interlisp/filesmoved but I will wait Ron will clean up his dropbox and he or I will push to GitHub/Interlisp/medley.

 

I’d like to make some video demos of what development was like, as well as showing some of the inner workings (the gc, memory management, etc)

Things we never wrote up.

 

I’d like to see something running on Michele’s Dolphin (and the same thing on medley 😊

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[Larry Masinter]

Michele talked about getting a board made by Josh of the dlion emulator, said board did 3MB Ethernet pup and something implemented IFS…

Well, we talked about ldeether.

 

I wondered about medley 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 3.5 and Nick said there were different #IFDEF’s for BIGATOM and 4-byte-atom and bigvm and bigger vm that might not quite correspond to medley versions

 

I explained the “Vintage Software” perspective

 

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[Michele Denber]

On 07-27-2020 11:01 PM, Larry Masinter wrote:

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I’d like to make some video demos of what development was like, as well as showing some of the inner workings (the gc, memory management, etc)

Things we never wrote up.

 

I’d like to see something running on Michele’s Dolphin (and the same thing on medley 😊

I would be happy to do a D0 demo, just not right now.  It's been very hot around here lately and the D0 generates so much heat it quickly overwhelms our A/C.  I'm open to requests as to what would make a good demo.

            - Michele

[Paul McJones]

On 7/28/2020 12:19 PM, Michele Denber wrote:
> I would be happy to do a D0 demo, just not right now.  It's been very
> hot around here lately and the D0 generates so much heat it quickly
> overwhelms our A/C.  I'm open to requests as to what would make a good
> demo.

I once shared an office with an Alto and a D0. I don't remember the
heat, but I was young and foolish and excited to have access to so much
computer power (1976-1981). As I recall, there was a respectable sound
level from the power supplies and disk drives.

[Michele Denber]

Heh - I had an Alto and a D0 in my office too. The heat was OK because
Xerox knew how to do A/C but the noise from the D0 was driving me
crazy. I whined enough about it that they finally moved the D0 into a
lab across the hall, leaving me with just a silent monitor and a very
long cable (which actually worked fine). And it was indeed an
astounding amount of computing power. I had an entire *megabyte" of RAM
on the D0. Plus the color board which gave me a 512x512x24 frame
buffer. I used it to create a color Pacman program in Lisp.

- Michele