Go! Go! Go! what an awesome bit of technoarcheology! fascinating to see what age does to all of these devices. really makes you realize how temporary everything is. some people don't even keep a car for a year.
Are there any Lisp-machine-like FPGA cores? That would be much more practical than dumpster diving at MIT or whatever. With modern improvements to the GUI and so on it could really become a thing again
Excellent idea. It would be great if, say, we had access to Verilog/VHDL inside a Symbolics. Around 2009, I loaded what was supposed to be Symbolics Genera (the Symbolics operating system) into VMware, and found it very disappointing. I had about a year worth of experience on Symbolics machines in the late 1980s and they were amazing. For some things I did, I don't think anything today is anywhere near as useful. At one point, before 1990, I was on the phone with someone who was selling a used Symbolics, but I did not buy it for personal use.
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0 u/drstrangegov 21 Oct 2018 18:04
Go! Go! Go! what an awesome bit of technoarcheology! fascinating to see what age does to all of these devices. really makes you realize how temporary everything is. some people don't even keep a car for a year.
0 u/RicardoBronson 24 Oct 2018 15:16
Are there any Lisp-machine-like FPGA cores? That would be much more practical than dumpster diving at MIT or whatever. With modern improvements to the GUI and so on it could really become a thing again
0 u/NeoGoat 26 Oct 2018 06:30
Excellent idea. It would be great if, say, we had access to Verilog/VHDL inside a Symbolics. Around 2009, I loaded what was supposed to be Symbolics Genera (the Symbolics operating system) into VMware, and found it very disappointing. I had about a year worth of experience on Symbolics machines in the late 1980s and they were amazing. For some things I did, I don't think anything today is anywhere near as useful. At one point, before 1990, I was on the phone with someone who was selling a used Symbolics, but I did not buy it for personal use.