"What We Have Lost" -- 3C talk

[liam_on_linux]

Wow. This is possibly the nerdiest talk I have ever seen, but it is very relevant to my own interests, especially my FOSDEM 2018 talkThe talk takes very quick looks at Symbolics Genera and OpenGenera and then compares it to Interlisp-D - or as they compare them, "west coast and east coast takes on the Lisp Machine context". That's a powerful

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[tpear]

Interesting video - good to finally see a lisp machine running. BTRON was interesting too - I first came across material on the TRON family is OSs years ago, but i guess it never got any traction outside of Japan. I vaguely remember at the time the specs were open in the sense that you could buy them.

Had never seen AS400 before either.

[liam_on_linux]

Yes. :-)

I suspect that probably a huge number -- maybe more than all x86 PCs ever made -- of electronics devices around the world run TRON or some variant, but their owners and users never know.

[waistcoatmark]

Microsoft really were *evil* back in those days...

[liam_on_linux]

Yup.

And frankly it would need _compelling_ evidence to persuade me they have changed. I have seen none. I've just seen marketing.

And a lot of kids who don't remember the old MS who believe the marketing.

Some of whom are managers at places I've worked...