22 Dec
2012
22 Dec
'12
1:59 p.m.
On Dec 22, 2012, at 1:34 PM, Guy Sotomayor <ggs at shiresoft.com> wrote:
I had some time last night so I spent several hours
digging through documentation and sitting at
the console to see if I couldn't make some progress.
First of all, I figured out how to obtain the ethernet MAC address:
show ethernet-address
What I had to figure out that I had to be at the FEP (Front End Processor) prompt and not
the
LISP listener since that command is an FEP command. So now my home network is
configured
for when I get the Symbolics configured enough to enable TCP/IP (or as Symbolics names
it
IP-TCP).
Cool! Glad you worked it out.
I also discovered (shouldn't be that big a surprise) that Genera doesn't really
use configuration
files. Everything is stored in the running LISP state. One thing that has to be
remembered is
that the entire LISP state needs to be saved when making configuration level changes (or
installing new software). Just because it's on disk doesn't mean it can be
used.
This is generally true, yes. Changes to the namespace are stored in the LMFS but most
overall OS configuration changes and software installation requires saving the world as
well. You are in a sense modifying a very large LISP program, as it's running :).
(If you make enough changes, you may also want to Optimize World as well, to reduce the
size of the loaded world.)
I remembered another fairly useful reference once you get everything up and running to
your liking:
"Lisp Lore: A Guide to programming the Lisp Machine"
(http://archive.org/details/lisploreguidetop00brom)
It's a pretty brisk read and it'll walk you through the day-to-day of usage,
development, debugging, etc.
I'm going to see if I can't get a bit further
today.
Best of luck!
- Josh
TTFN - Guy