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froggey / Mezzano

An operating system written in Common Lisp
MIT License
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how ready is mezzano as a stand alone operating system...? #125

Closed hackware closed 7 months ago

hackware commented 5 years ago

since i'm getting a new computer (bolt via kickstarter)... willing to build mezzano on a dell 485...? system... long time ago, worked on intergraph workstation (native lisp) hooked into a cray 1... wrote code specifications (not code), but picked up enuff to be dangerous... now learning lisp for real... if mezzano is ready, will jump right in... (20+ years on freebsd, so not a total noob...) william...

ebrasca commented 5 years ago

Mezzano support amd64 and armv8 ( 64bit only ) USB support is WIP What is your definition of ready?

hackware commented 5 years ago

will boot, and run packages already working under vm... this will be a dedicated machine to really learn lisp, inside and out... don't expect polished system (ibm research 8 years)... dell 495 with AMD Phenom 9650 quad core 2.3ghz, and 8gb ram... 500gb and 4tb drives... dvd and blueray... william...

ebrasca commented 5 years ago

You can use Quicklisp to load packages. Here link : https://github.com/froggey/quicklisp-client/tree/mezzano-port

hackware commented 5 years ago

this is my 3rd swipe at lisp... 1981 point loma naval research center, intergraph workstations (lisp hardware machines) hooked to a cray-1... 1992, ibm research on 3090 summent ssi complex aix/lisp/chemical computing clusters... (neither of the above was i a lisp coder, wrote system specifications...) now... going after whole enchilada... want to know it all... william...

hackware commented 5 years ago

is "virtio-net NIC" real hardware...? or part of the vm hal layer...? (over a decade since i've run vmware...)

[ ok, i should NOT be using this as a question and answer, please point me to where i SHOULD ]...

william...

hackware commented 5 years ago

ok, just gotta ask...

notes under demo 4...

Running on real hardware: The hybrid image can be burned to a CD or dd'd onto a USB drive, and booted directly. It requires a 64-bit x86 machine, 2GB of RAM, and a PS/2 keyboard and mouse.

does this include AMD Phenom 9650 quad-core cpu, or Intel ONLY...? also, don't think i even have a ps/2 keyboard or mouse anymore... i'll purchase if REQUIRED... an old laptop is the only intel box i have...

william...