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>you have to write your code to fit a finite memory footprint

This sounds like the opposite of having the more moldable environment.

>Open Genera did very little on top of Genera at that, mostly targeting and making it work on the Ivory.

Ivory support was implemented in Genera 7.3. Open Genera added the virtual machine to run on DEC Alpha hardware, it was Genera 8.3 + VLM, upgraded to Genera 8.5 with Open Genera 2.0.

>even moreso than Lisp

How exactly?

The author is also one of the developers of the Symbolics Virtual Lisp Machine used in Open (and now Portable) Genera: http://pt.withington.org/publications/VLM.html

TIL Kojima isn't just a surname (of a famous game designer), but also a town.

The inference engine is implemented in SubL (see https://cyc.com/archives/glossary/subl/ and https://web.archive.org/web/20120513111513/http://www.cyc.co...) which is a variant of Common Lisp, and the knowledge base is implemented in CycL which is divided into the Epistemological Level (EL) and the Heuristic Level (HL).

There was a source-available version called OpenCyc with a small subset of the knowledge base that is now retired and no longer officially available, but it's still easy to find on the net.

That person is already dead, and already widely discussed (including here on HN a few days ago) as a candidate.

"The requested URL was rejected. Please consult with your administrator. Error 503 - Service Unavailable"

It zooms in just fine for me? https://i.postimg.cc/PJpz8xBn/image.png

>I felt so smart telling him that was impossible because you can't mod software with a soldering iron.

Many old systems stored their software in a diode matrix, which could be modded with a soldering iron: https://www.cca.org/blog/20120222-Diode-Matrix.shtml

>The end of Dennard scaling was why the Pentium 4 architecture was a dead end and never hit 10Ghz like it was supposed to, why the Cell processor never hit the 5Ghz it was supposed to

Around that time the PowerPC 970 aka G5 also failed to achieve 3 GHz, breaking the promise Steve Jobs publicly made at one of his keynotes for Apple.

The title reminds me of this classic paper, "If It Works, It's Not AI: A Commercial Look at Artificial Intelligence Startups": https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/80558

I don’t think any BSD uses Mach, or Quartz, or Cocoa.

I'm working on a public access Symbolics Portable Genera system that will be reachable from the web, similar to Interlisp Online. The current owner of Symbolics' intellectual property gave me the permission to do this. I'm also going to mirror all Symbolics documentation on the same domain.

Mojo is completely unrelated, created by Chris Lattner and his team at Modular AI.

>enabled and masked by AI productivity gains.

That's a fantasy, unless these are really menial jobs.

>But at its core is a message that is missing a little from modern computing - the ability to jump in and just get something simple built quick.

That niche has been pretty much filled by Excel, for better or worse.

At this point it's a separate language from Scheme. I think Chez Scheme tends to be the "default" recommendation.

Can we not overload this term please? https://www.britannica.com/technology/microprogramming

Some combination of [0], [1], [2], and [3] is the closest modern equivalent.

[0] https://slime.common-lisp.dev/

[1] https://github.com/joaotavora/sly

[2] https://mcclim.common-lisp.dev/

[3] https://lem-project.github.io/

Also, Portable Genera is still being developed by a former Symbolics employee but unfortunately it is only available for a chosen few, at least for now.

That's not the same PPU, is it?

  >is a VC-funded corporate network that expects return on investment while saying it is open
  >Nostr

Do you mean the same Nostr that is backed by Jack Dorsey, the Twitter billionaire?

I don't want economists to move fast and break things.

There is more if you search by the tag: https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22Symbolics%22

They are unrealistic in a consistently stylized way, unlike AI-generated images which are simply broken.

98 was the one that introduced NT drivers (WDM).

Carbon is a better Apple-related comparison since it's basically a cleaned-up version of the classic Mac OS API as a library that ran on both Mac OS X and classic.

Apparently HN downranks posts using the same indicator.

They were one of the first HDTV customers, along with NGIA and NRO.

That's not why we have fonts: http://www.righto.com/2017/10/the-xerox-alto-steve-jobs-and-...