LMI Lambda?

Daniel Seagraves dseagrav at lunar-tokyo.net
Thu Feb 9 11:40:33 CST 2017


> On Feb 9, 2017, at 11:38 AM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
> 
>> From: Alfred M. Szmidt
> 
>> System 46 for the MIT CADR is licensed under a 3-clause BSD license --
>> start hacking. ;-) You even have an emulator for the MIT CADR.
> 
> Everyone seems to have blown right past this, but it might be important.
> 
> Does anyone know if the Lambda matches the CADR? Or did they make changes
> ('improvements')? I always had the impression that it was basically a CADR
> clone.
> 
> A CADR emulator, running the MIT code, would certainly be OK.

It’s not an exact clone - The microcode is different, and they added a lot to the system after they got it. It’s between the CADR and TI/Symbolics. The first Lambda release was equivalent to CADR System 99, and they branched off from there.




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