Doug Lenat died. RIP. #cyc #lispm #lispmachines #ai #commonlisp #cycorp

He started the Cyc project, using Lisp Machines as a development environment. The project is roughly since 40 years ongoing. Cyc was the dream of a large-scale knowledge base of common sense knowledge. One that has many ways of reasoning and making inferences. It used SubL a variant of Common Lisp.

Here is an old screen shot...

@coolbeans @piggo You do make some good points, though it is possible to do system programming with a garbage-collected language.

#LispMachines and their #Lisp image OSes did it. Granted that does represent a fairly different paradigm (with certain inherent tradeoffs) from that which D purports to adhere to.

The ultimate yak shave: to implement its last generation of #LispMachines, Symbolics developed a complete #EDA toolset in #CommonLisp called NS that enabled them to design and verify their ASICs, gate arrays, and boards from architecture to photomasks for manufacturing.

Thanks to @jpreisendoerfer for scanning the article "The #Symbolics #Ivory Design and #Verification Strategy" that was unavailable on the net until now.

#Lisp #CAD #VLSI #History #ComputingHistory #Semiconductors #Technology

Making the Film: How Stanley and Stella Came Together

https://archive.org/details/how-stanley-and-stella-came-together-sgd-s-news-march-1988

#Symbolics first published the production notes for the movie in March 1988, and now they are availiable on the Internet Archive.

Was this the first instance of a rendering farm?

#SymbolicsGraphicsDivision #LispMachines #LispM #Lisp #ComputerGraphics #CGI #VFX #Rendering #Art #DigitalArt #Animation #ComputerHistory #History #Retrocomputing #RenderFarm

Stanley and Stella in “BREAKING THE ICE” - Original #Symbolics Tapes Restored & Remastered, 1080p

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYEp26g14Wk

"June 2023 restoration, production, post, and remastering by Tom McMahon, Michael Wahrman, Jim Ryan, and Craig Reynolds."

This is a short animated movie first shown at #SIGGRAPH 87, made with S-Graphics on #LispMachines.

#SymbolicsGraphicsDivision #LispM #Lisp #ComputerGraphics #CGI #VFX #Rendering #Art #DigitalArt #Animation #ComputerHistory #History #Retrocomputing

#OldComputerChallenge Day 5

No progress today - Mainframe systems (my main job) rescheduled everything in last day before vacations. But night is long and probably plan to explore #emacs as IDE for #Lisp will be suspended for a while. This way #LispMachines will be replaced with #StackMachines #uxn.

gopher://sdf.org/0/users/nutilius/occ-2023/2023-07-14

Question posted to Hacker News:

Ask HN: What Were the Differences Between Symbolics Genera and Xerox Interlisp-D
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36713595

#interlisp #LispMachines #retrocomputing

@nixfreak @theruran I miss the aborted future where #LispMachines & #Smalltalk systems are the norm.

It's a much nicer timeline.

Still, maybe this will finally reverse steam on the proliferation of unsafe languages? The disastrous disregard for #LanguageBasedSecurity and the inevitable #security consequences finally having reached the point where they cannot be ignored.

#Lisp

@amoroso I would be interested in hearing and reading about if you had a conversation with noted finely aged hardware guru @jasmaz about 80s (or earlier..) #interlisp -machines. Sadly I don't know anything about Xerox AI Workstations (yet). #vintage #LispMachines

I know there are countless gems buried in the depths of @internetarchive but I was stunned when I run across this rare book about Symbolics Lisp Machines, "Lisp Lore: A Guide to Programming the Lisp Machine" by Hank Bromley:

https://archive.org/details/lisploreguidetop00brom

#LispMachines #lisp #retrocomputing

Chaosnet: The #Lisp Machine network protocol that was beat by TCP/IP

"The only really visible remnant of #Chaosnet is the CH DNS class. There’s something about that fact that I find strangely fascinating. The CH class is a vestigial ghost of an alternative network protocol in a world that has long since settled on TCP/IP. It’s exciting, at least to me, to know that the last traces of Chaosnet still lurk out there in the infrastructure of our networked society. The CH DNS class is a fun artifact of digital archaeology. But it’s also a living reminder that the internet was not born fully formed, that TCP/IP is not the only way to connect computers to each other, and that “the internet” is far from the coolest name we could have had for our global communication system."

https://twobithistory.org/2018/09/30/chaosnet.html

#lispmachines

My Medley Interlisp post was shared on Hacker News, got over a hundred upvotes, and ended up on the front page, where it still remained almost a day later after climbing up to number 5. So far my post received over 27K views, and counting.

I'm really happy Medley Interlisp is gaining some very well deserved attention.

https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/my-encounter-with-medley-interlisp

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34300806

← (MIND 'BLOWN)

#interlisp #LispMachines #lisp #retrocomputing

If you're into retrocomputing stop what you're doing and check out Medley Interlisp, a restoration of the software environment of Xerox Lisp Machines rehosted on modern systems.

It's the most fascinating and advanced software development environment I've ever seen. I posted about my first impressions, why I love Medley Interlisp, and how I plan to use it:

https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/my-encounter-with-medley-interlisp

#interlisp #LispMachines #lisp #retrocomputing

@sevan no news

http://web.archive.org/web/20220714194401/https://twitter.com/gmpalter/status/1547668072160378881

https://twitter.com/gmpalter/status/1579097602905497600

cc: @gmpalter

#PortableGenera #Genera #LispMachines #Symbolics

Are there aney emulators of #lisp machines terminals ?

Or Lisp machines in general ?

#lispmachine
#lispmachines