Symbolics Lisp Machine demo Jan 2013
Kalman Reti · 5 HN recommendations
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Symbolics developer Kalman Reti gives a short introductory demo of a Symbolics Lisp Machine running Genera in an emulator. It shows the context-aware command line, typed on-screen objects, and the live-editable system, including swapping in a C-compiled JPEG decoder.
Why HN recommends it: The go-to demo whenever HN discusses what Lisp machines were like and what modern shells and editors lack.
“It makes working on VSCode today look like banging rocks together” Read on HN ↗