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| Ergonomics of the Symbolics Lisp Machine (lispm.de) | ||
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| melloclello Jun 11, 2014 | on: With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of… | context |
> Fink has assigned one team to develop the open-source Machine OS, which will assume the availability of a high-speed, constant memory store. Another team is working on a stripped-down version of Linux with similar aims; another team is working on an Android version, looking to a point at which the technology could trickle down to PCs and smartphones.
I was hoping for a second there that somebody at HP had read about Loper OS and Stanislav Datsovskiy's ideas[1], or even about Symbolics LISP machines (great article on the frontpage today[2]), but nope, looks like they are just gonna repeat the same insanity of the past fifty years instead of actually doing something that will progress the field of computing.
[1] http://www.loper-os.org/?p=284
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7878679