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> Alice's PDP-10 is also a classic Reminds me, some fortunes on LAMBDA.TXT[1] seem to hint at the existence of an "Alice's LispM", seemingly a parody on the PD

by Tevo 3y ago

> Alice's PDP-10 is also a classic Reminds me, some fortunes on LAMBDA.TXT[1] seem to hint at the existence of an "Alice's LispM", seemingly a parody on the PDP-10 version, but a quick search for it doesn't seem to come up with much (I haven't looked very hard). Does anybody know anything about this? [1]: http://www.gotlisp.com/lambda/lambda.txt http://www.gotlisp.com/lambda/lambda.txt

DonHopkins 3y ago
Oh yes, I love that one -- it inspired me to become a Window System Hacker, and write the ugly and nasty and horrible and kludgy "Bouncy pushy window mixin", which made the windows bounce all around the screen! https://donhopkins.com/home/archive/lisp/bounce-and-push.lisp https://donhopkins.com/home/archive/lisp/bounce-and-push.lis... ALICE'S LISP MACHINE: Chris Stacy, Alan Wecsler, and Noel Chiappa https://web.archive.org/web/20110403000600/http://allegedly.petebevin.com/alicesli.html https://web.archive.org/web/20110403000600/http://allegedly.... There was all kinds of mean, nasty, ugly-lookin' people on the bench there ... there was Microcoders, DPL hackers, File System hackers, and Window System Hackers!! Window System hacker sittin' right there on the bench next to me! And the meanest, ugliest, nastiest one... the kludgiest Window System hacker of them all... was comin' over to me, and he was mean and ugly and nasty and horrible and all kinds of things, and he sat down next to me. He said, "Kid, you get a new copy of the sources?" I said, "I didn't get nothin'. I had to rebuild the world load." He said, "What were you arrested for, kid?" and I said, "Littering..." And they all moved away from me on the bench there, with the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean, nasty things, 'til I said, "And making gratuitous modifications to LMIO; sources..." And they all came back, shook my hand, and we had a great time on the bench talkin' about microcoding, DPL designing, file-system hacking, ... and all kinds of groovy things that we was talkin' about on the bench, and everything was fine. We was drinking Coke smoking all kinds of things, until the RA came over, had some paper in his hand, held it up and said: "KIDS-THIS-EXAM-S-GOT-FOURTY SEVEN-WORDS-THIRTY-SEVEN-MULTIPLE-CHOICE-QUESTIONS FIFTY-EIGHT-WORDS-WE-WANT-TO-KNOW-THE-DETAILS OF-THE-HACK-THE-TIME-OF-THE-HACK-AND-ANY OTHER-KIND-OF-THING-YOU-GOT-TO-SAY PERTAINING-TO-AND-ABOUT-THE-HACK-ANY-OTHER KIND-OF-THING-YOU-GOT-TO-SAY-WE-WANT-TO-KNOW THE-ARRESTED-PROCESS'-NAME-AND-ANY OTHER-KIND-OF-THING..." And he talked for forty-five minutes and nobody understood a word that he said. But we had fun rolling the mice around and clickin' on the buttons.
- shagie 3y ago
  Reminds me of Poppyfields filk archive. http://www.poppyfields.net/filks/bandindex.html http://www.poppyfields.net/filks/bandindex.html I'm a fan of the two renditions of Piano Man and the Berkelian Rhapsody - http://www.poppyfields.net/filks/00034.html http://www.poppyfields.net/filks/00034.html

by Tevo 3y ago

DonHopkins 3y ago

Oh yes, I love that one -- it inspired me to become a Window System Hacker, and write the ugly and nasty and horrible and kludgy "Bouncy pushy window mixin", which made the windows bounce all around the screen! https://donhopkins.com/home/archive/lisp/bounce-and-push.lisp https://donhopkins.com/home/archive/lisp/bounce-and-push.lis... ALICE'S LISP MACHINE: Chris Stacy, Alan Wecsler, and Noel Chiappa https://web.archive.org/web/20110403000600/http://allegedly.petebevin.com/alicesli.html https://web.archive.org/web/20110403000600/http://allegedly.... There was all kinds of mean, nasty, ugly-lookin' people on the bench there ... there was Microcoders, DPL hackers, File System hackers, and Window System Hackers!! Window System hacker sittin' right there on the bench next to me! And the meanest, ugliest, nastiest one... the kludgiest Window System hacker of them all... was comin' over to me, and he was mean and ugly and nasty and horrible and all kinds of things, and he sat down next to me. He said, "Kid, you get a new copy of the sources?" I said, "I didn't get nothin'. I had to rebuild the world load." He said, "What were you arrested for, kid?" and I said, "Littering..." And they all moved away from me on the bench there, with the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean, nasty things, 'til I said, "And making gratuitous modifications to LMIO; sources..." And they all came back, shook my hand, and we had a great time on the bench talkin' about microcoding, DPL designing, file-system hacking, ... and all kinds of groovy things that we was talkin' about on the bench, and everything was fine. We was drinking Coke smoking all kinds of things, until the RA came over, had some paper in his hand, held it up and said: "KIDS-THIS-EXAM-S-GOT-FOURTY SEVEN-WORDS-THIRTY-SEVEN-MULTIPLE-CHOICE-QUESTIONS FIFTY-EIGHT-WORDS-WE-WANT-TO-KNOW-THE-DETAILS OF-THE-HACK-THE-TIME-OF-THE-HACK-AND-ANY OTHER-KIND-OF-THING-YOU-GOT-TO-SAY PERTAINING-TO-AND-ABOUT-THE-HACK-ANY-OTHER KIND-OF-THING-YOU-GOT-TO-SAY-WE-WANT-TO-KNOW THE-ARRESTED-PROCESS'-NAME-AND-ANY OTHER-KIND-OF-THING..." And he talked for forty-five minutes and nobody understood a word that he said. But we had fun rolling the mice around and clickin' on the buttons.

shagie 3y ago
Reminds me of Poppyfields filk archive. http://www.poppyfields.net/filks/bandindex.html http://www.poppyfields.net/filks/bandindex.html I'm a fan of the two renditions of Piano Man and the Berkelian Rhapsody - http://www.poppyfields.net/filks/00034.html http://www.poppyfields.net/filks/00034.html