26 Jan
2012
26 Jan
'12
4:13 a.m.
Quite sad considering that when I was a the University of Missouri Rolla
in 72 there was a grad student who implemented Lisp on the Microdata
1600 in 16/21 assembly, then later enhanced it with a car function in
firmware, and also added virtual swapping of workspace to the disk
attached to the system.
It would run on a 16 K system for a few iterations, and if it was
swapping it would run up to when it filled the 1.25mb of disk space it
could get to. Garbage collect was not well implemented on any Lisp at
the time, and was a problem given having only 16K of memory (including
OS) to work with.
He should have headed to UMR...
Jim
On 1/25/2012 4:44 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
Meanwhile, a dot-comrade of mine, a chap who's
doing CompSci at the U
of Missouri, had never heard of Lisp Machines and has never used
anything that isn't a member of the C family. Seems like a sad thing
to me, that.