Someone walks into the Vintage Computer Festival and asks, ‘what’s new?’. It’s a hilarious joke, but there is some truth to it. At this year’s Vintage Computer Festival West, the exhibit hall wasn’t ...

Computer languages have always advanced faster than computer hardware. Case in point: we’re just now getting CPU instructions for JavaScript floating point numbers. The 1970s and 80s wasn’t the ...

A high-end workstation used to execute applications written in the LISP programming language. Typically with keyboards customized for LISP commands, machines from Symbolics, Lisp Machines Inc., TI and ...

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The MakerLisp Embedded Lisp Machine is targeted at makers and developers of embedded systems for use at the edge of the IoT. Thus, you can only imagine my surprise and delight to be introduced to ...

How an ice cream innovator in Somerville influenced Lisp pioneers at the MIT AI Lab­—and made a lasting mark on programming. In the early 1970s, a team of engineers at MIT’s AI Lab launched a ...

At the start of his linux.conf.au 2019 talk, Kristoffer Grönlund said that he would be taking attendees back 60 years or more. That is not quite to the dawn of computing history, but it is ...

As was guessed by an audience member (winning the 1000-nerd-point prize), the font he used was from the original Symbolics Lisp machine. That was me! I said I was pretty sure it was from "a Lisp ...

今回は、A Fridge-Sized Machine Built to Run One Language — And the Year It Stopped Mattering という記事を読み、特定のプログラミング言語を動かすために設計された「専用マシン」の歴史とその終焉が、現代のエンジニアリングにも通じる教訓を含んでいると感じたので、こちらで内容を整理してみようと思います。 シンボリックスのマ ...