Lisp Operating System?

stateless · 06-11-2013, 08:21 PM

Hi. I'm rather new to lisp (Common lisp, Emacs lisp). It is such a cool language, that I'm naturally curious if anyone has written on operating system in Lisp (i.e., post 1970s). I see from the search engine that there used to be a proprietary project called Genera. I see links here and there for "Open Genera" or "MIT Lisp machine" but I always end up at a 404 when I try to track down source code.

salasi · 06-12-2013, 03:37 AM

See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...rating_systems

in particular the Genera link. I had thought that there was another one, but a simple search did not show anything that I remembered.

ntubski · 06-12-2013, 09:55 AM

There was a more recent effort called Movitz, it looks dead though (last change was 2008).

stateless · 06-12-2013, 11:12 AM

I wonder if it wouldn't be a good idea to build a Lisp OS targeting vm virtual "hardware" (like default qemu devices) instead of a real system. (I'm interested enough I might be willing to try it.) Techs like KVM would be able to close most of the performance gap, right?

stateless · 06-12-2013, 11:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by salasi

See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...rating_systems

in particular the Genera link. I had thought that there was another one, but a simple search did not show anything that I remembered.

Links keep bringing me back to the symbolics page. There is some mention of "Open Genera", but I don't see any source code.