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The Computer Nonsense Guide
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Genera investigations #22

Closed jchassoul closed 6 years ago

jchassoul commented 6 years ago

Need a simple list of specs, specs of the past!

jchassoul commented 6 years ago

The Lisp Machine operating system was written in Lisp Machine Lisp. It was a one-user workstation initially targeted at software developers for artificial intelligence projects.[1] The system had a large bitmap screen, a mouse, a keyboard, a network interface, a disk drive and slots for expansion. The operating system was supporting this hardware and it provided (among others):

code for a Frontend Processor a way to boot the operating system virtual memory management garbage collection interface to various hardware (mouse, keyboard, bitmap frame buffer, disk, printer, network interface) an interpreter and a native code compiler for Lisp Machine Lisp an object system (Flavors) a window system and a window manager a local file system support for the CHAOS network an Emacs-like Editor named Zmacs a mail program named Zmail a Lisp listener a debugger This was already a complete operating system and development environment for a Lisp-based one-user operating system.

The MIT Lisp Machine operating system has been developed from the middle 1970s to the early 1980s.

jchassoul commented 6 years ago

https://www.ifis.uni-luebeck.de/~moeller/symbolics-info/symbolics.html

jchassoul commented 6 years ago

jchassoul commented 6 years ago

Applications are called activities. Some of the activities:

Zmacs, an Emacs-like text editor Zmail, a mail reader also providing a calendar File system browser with tools for file system maintenance Lisp Listener with command line interface Document Examiner for browsing documentation Restore Distribution to install software. Distribute Systems, to create software distributions Peek to examine system information (processes, windows, network connections, ...) Debugger Namespace Editor to access informations about objects in the network (users, computers, file systems, ...) Converse, a chat client Terminal Inspector, for browsing Lisp data structures Notifications Frame-Up, for designing user interfaces Flavor Examiner, to examine the classes and methods of the Flavor object-oriented extension to Lisp

jchassoul commented 6 years ago

Other applications from Symbolics Symbolics sold several applications that were running on top of Symbolics Genera.

Symbolics Concordia, a document production suite Symbolics Joshua, an expert system shell Symbolics Macsyma, a computer algebra system Symbolics NS, a chip design tool Symbolics Plexi, a neural network development tool Symbolics S-Graphics, a suite of tools: S-Paint, S-Geometry, S-Dynamics, S-Render Symbolics S-Utilities: S-Record, S-Compositor, S-Colorize, S-Convert Symbolics Scope, Image processing with a Pixar Image Computer Symbolics Statice, an object-oriented database

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