[LispM-Hackers] Who is doing what?

[James A. Crippen]

John Morrison <jm@mak.com> writes:

> Could we add another function DTP that actually had x86 (position
> independent, obviously) opcodes in it instead of macroinstructions?

I like this idea.  It sounds plausible.  But what would be even more
useful (I think) would be the capability to call out through an FFI to
host operating system functions.  That's pie in the sky though.  We'd
need a booting Lisp world first.

'james

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