[LMH]Re: [LispM-Hackers] Latex

[ford@objs.com]

Before the Explorer hw was ready, we developed the Explorer sw on CADRs
and Lambdas emulating the Explorer.  I think the microcoders initially used an
emulator that ran on the Symbolics, but I'm not sure of that one.

Steve

"James A. Crippen" wrote:

> John Morrison <jm@mak.com> writes:
>
> > Cross-developing an emulator for one machine upon an emulator for
> > another machine is just too delicious.  What enormous potential hack
> > value.  Talk about *bootstrapping*.  Everything else would seem
> > positively *amateur*.
>
> I'm all for it.  Just for pure balls-to-the-wall madness.
>
> I'm seeing first resurrecting the MacLisp-based LispM emulator that
> was used before the hardware was stable.  Then using that to build the
> CADR emulator.
>
> So you'd have a PDP-10 emulator running ITS and MacLisp, with that
> emulating the LispM.  Then using that emulated emulator to build
> another emulator.
>
> Better have a fast machine!!!
>
> 'james
>
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