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Why hasn't anyone ported (Open)Genera to modern architectures? What are the barriers?
by _exec 15y ago
Why hasn't anyone ported (Open)Genera to modern architectures? What are the barriers?
- sedachv 15y agoHere's the least-hairy part of the disk drivers in the LMI source code: http://code.google.com/p/jrm-code-project/source/browse/trunk/lambda/io/new-disk.lisp http://code.google.com/p/jrm-code-project/source/browse/trun... I haven't looked at any Genera source code, but I suspect it is similarly hairy. It's a lot of work.
- _exec 15y agoOutch..are there any other Lisp OSes? I remember finding a list sometime ago but none of them showed any promise AFAIK.
- kruhft 15y agoMovitz is one: http://common-lisp.net/project/movitz/movitz.html http://common-lisp.net/project/movitz/movitz.html and http://trac.common-lisp.net/movitz http://trac.common-lisp.net/movitz for where to get the code.
- metaguri 15y agoHairy, especially because most of us haven't done systems programming like that, but how cool is it to see "(without-interrupts ..."??
- ScottBurson 15y agoThat's what OpenGenera is. Originally it ran on the Alpha. Brad Parker ported it to AMD64.