On 08/04/2008, Alexander Schreiber <als at thangorodrim.de> wrote:
  On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 09:22:02AM +0200, Jochen Kunz
wrote:
  On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 03:56:14 +0100
 "Liam Proven" <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
  I know SQR(fsck all) about Lisp Machines, but in
these days of
 high-powered PCs, would it be viable to create some form of
 implementation of the LispM OS on x86? Even if it required some kind
 of emulation layer underneath for content-addressable memory or
 whatever? 
 http://labs.aezenix.com/lispm/index.php?title=VLM_On_Linux
 VLM On Linux
 This file gives some additional hints on running the Symbolics Virtual
 Lisp Machine (VLM) port to Linux/x86_64 by Brad Parker.
 [...] 
 There is also a Lisp on bare-metal-x86, project Movitz:
  
http://common-lisp.net/project/movitz/
  It would probably be a good idea to port it against the Xen PVM
  interface - this would solve the pesky issue of hardware drivers quite
  elegantly ;-) 
Fascinating. Thanks for that.
I was going to say that running it under Xen or something would rather
miss the point, inasmuch as that brings all the baggage of having Unix
underneath - but then, coincidentally, today I read this:
<http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Infrastructure/Novell-Developing-Standalone-Xen-Based-Hypervisor-Product/>
The URL is quite informative in itself, really, but the article opens thus:
_Novell Developing Stand-Alone Xen-Based Hypervisor Product_
*Novell's hypervisor product will be available later in 2008 and is
based on the Xen hypervisor found in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.*
Novell is quietly working on a stand-alone hypervisor product that
will be based on the Xen hypervisor found in SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server 10.
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