「 Chaosnet was developed in the 1970s by researchers at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab. It was created as a part of a larger effort to design and build a machine that could run the Lisp programming language more efficiently than a general-purpose computer 」
Heads up: @bitsavers uploaded a new batch of Symbolics Lisp Machine manuals and documents covering the Lisp language, development tools, system essentials, and more.
#pascal#modula2#oberon#lilith Niklaus Wirth passed away on 1st Jan 2024? I learned a lot by reading his books and by using Pascal & Modula 2 on the UCSD virtual machine on the Apple ][.
#lisp#lispmachine#symbolics#genera#pascal#niklauswirth Niklaus Wirth's PASCAL made it to unusual systems: Here is a screenshot of a Lisp Machine, browsing the original Pascal User Manual and Report, but in a hypertext browser, with a PASCAL implementation loaded...
In 1987 Dr. Dobb's Journal published a review in two parts of the Xerox 1186 Lisp Machine. The first (July) explains the rationale for custom Lisp hardware and describes the Interlisp-D environment and tools:
I was looking into an old #Lisp project on the weekend. It's a bit sad because it is code that will never run again. It simply does not have an OS or environment to be run in. #MCL, those were the days! :)