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- From: gandalf@sabrina.dei.unipd.it (ROBERTO AVANZI)
- Subject: Re: OSs written in Lisp (was: Is GC really even necessary?)
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- Organization: D.E.I. Universita' di Padova, Italia
- References: <9301192325.AA02857@af9hp.us.oracle.com> <1jk14kINNeb@early-bird.think.com> <BRENT.93Jan20131623@rcx1.ssd.csd.harris.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 08:48:34 GMT
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- In article <BRENT.93Jan20131623@rcx1.ssd.csd.harris.com> brent@ssd.csd.harris.com (Brent Benson) writes:
- >barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
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- >> In systems like Genera (the Symbolics Lisp Machine OS), these
- >> objects are represented in OO fashion, with direct references to the
- >> data structures....
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- >This got me thinking. Is there any OS work being done in Lisp or
- >Lisp-like languages for stock (non-Lisp machine) hardware? I would
- >appreciate references if you have them. I'm well aware of the
- >advantages of doing compiler work in Lisp---what are the advantages
- >and disadvantages of doing OS work in Lisp?
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- >--
- >Brent Benson
- >Harris Computer Systems
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- GNU Emacs, add it a task scheduler and a file system, and you have an operating
- system :-P , but you have also an analyst with it for free !!!
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- only joking... for the real qustion dunno...
- Roberto Avanzi
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