From: RR
Subject: OS in lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <pan.2003.09.21.17.23.12.839817@yahoo.com>
are there any operating systems writen in lisp? I was just curious about
this.

-RR
From: Edi Weitz
Subject: Re: OS in lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <8765jm57zn.fsf@bird.agharta.de>
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 13:23:13 -0400, "RR" <··········@yahoo.com> wrote:

> are there any operating systems writen in lisp? I was just curious
> about this.

Google for "Lisp Machine" and you'll find a considerable amount of
information about a class of machines which had an operating system
written entirely in Lisp.

For starters, you might want to look at Rainer Joswig's videos

  <http://lemonodor.com/archives/000441.html>
  <http://lemonodor.com/archives/000103.html>

which show how working with Lisp Machines was/is completely different
from working with today's "modern" operating systems.

Edi.
From: thelifter
Subject: Re: Emacs
Date: 
Message-ID: <b295356a.0309212100.9700a3f@posting.google.com>
Yes,

there is a very famous one called EMACS:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html

Actually a lot of people would argue that Emacs is more than an OS,
for some people it is a religion or a way of life:

newsgroup: alt.religion.emacs
http://www.stallman.org/saint.html

"Yes, it is possible to be all things to all people, if you're talking
about Emacs."

Original quote from:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/gnuext/desc.html

You have the choice: love it or leave it!

Have fun!
From: thelifter
Subject: Re: Emacs
Date: 
Message-ID: <b295356a.0309221006.5d6e8eee@posting.google.com>
This was meant as a response to the posting "OS in Lisp", I don't know
what went wrong.
From: Frank Roland
Subject: Re: Emacs
Date: 
Message-ID: <bkngsa$ss$05$1@news.t-online.com>
"thelifter" <·········@gmx.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
································@posting.google.com...
> Yes,
>
> there is a very famous one called EMACS:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html
>
> Actually a lot of people would argue that Emacs is more than an OS,
> for some people it is a religion or a way of life:
>

I would say that emacs is not an OS at all, its rather an editor, isn't it?

Regards

Frank
From: Pascal Bourguignon
Subject: Re: Emacs
Date: 
Message-ID: <87pthswqnh.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com>
"Frank Roland" <····@frank-roland.de> writes:
> I would say that emacs is not an OS at all, its rather an editor, isn't it?

You know a lot of editors that contain:

    - news readers,
    - email clients,
    - irc clients,
    - web browser,
    - file managers,
    - http servers,
    - ftp clients,
    - database managers,
    - psychological assistant AI,
    - games,
    - lisp development environment (editor ok, compiler, debugger),
    - that can fork processes, shells, etc...

Have a look at Oberon (the language) and Oberon (the operating system)
to see how one can consider emacs to be a OS in its own right too.

-- 
__Pascal_Bourguignon__
http://www.informatimago.com/
Do not adjust your mind, there is a fault in reality.
From: thelifter
Subject: Re: OS in lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <b295356a.0309221702.2c7725ce@posting.google.com>
Yes,

there is a very famous one called EMACS:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html

Actually a lot of people would argue that Emacs is more than an OS,
for some people it is a religion or a way of life:

newsgroup: alt.religion.emacs
http://www.stallman.org/saint.html

"Yes, it is possible to be all things to all people, if you're talking
about Emacs."

Original quote from:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/gnuext/desc.html

You have the choice: love it or leave it!

Have fun!
From: Shawn Betts
Subject: Re: OS in lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <874qz3x6ol.fsf@foo.foo>
"RR" <··········@yahoo.com> writes:

> are there any operating systems writen in lisp? I was just curious about
> this.

Not that I know of, but there's lots of talk...or should I say, used
to be lots of talk:

http://lists.tunes.org/mailman/listinfo/lispos/

Shawn
comp.lang.lisp / 2003 / sep