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_exec
on March 12, 2012
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Why hasn't anyone ported (Open)Genera to modern architectures? What are the barriers?
ScottBurson
on March 13, 2012
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That's what OpenGenera is. Originally it ran on the Alpha. Brad Parker ported it to AMD64.
sedachv
on March 13, 2012
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Here's the least-hairy part of the disk drivers in the LMI source code:
http://code.google.com/p/jrm-code-project/source/browse/trun...
I haven't looked at any Genera source code, but I suspect it is similarly hairy. It's a lot of work.
metaguri
on March 13, 2012
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Hairy, especially because most of us haven't done systems programming like that, but how cool is it to see "(without-interrupts ..."??
_exec
on March 13, 2012
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Outch..are there any other Lisp OSes? I remember finding a list sometime ago but none of them showed any promise AFAIK.
kruhft
on March 13, 2012
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Movitz is one:
http://common-lisp.net/project/movitz/movitz.html
and
http://trac.common-lisp.net/movitz
for where to get the code.
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