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Comment by FredPret

2 years ago

I'm new to Lisp - would this then be a modern Lisp machine?

It's certainly what I had in mind when I started the project. Writing a full Lisp operating system is extremely hard, better to take advantage of Linux and its drivers so as to avoid spending an entire lifetime recreating them.

It's my understanding that a true Lisp machine would have hardware support for Lisp abstractions at the instruction set level, so I don't think the concept would apply to lone. I would be seriously honored if people considered it one though, even if only in spirit.

Well, if by lisp machine we understand a processor that can run native lisp, of course not, but I was dreaming with a modern lisp machine, and this is the best that can be practically made