[LMH]FPGA / microcode

[Mike McDonald]

>To: Robert Swindells <rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk>
>Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 12:35:34 -0800
>From: Eric Blossom
>
>Not a bad idea, but it leaves us in the same mess we're in now: 
>No free software / open source lisp machine.
>
>I suggest that we learn from the examples of the past, but start new,
>with free software all the way to the bottom.  We've got good free
>compilers already.  There's McCLIM for the display.  There are a
>couple of emacs-ish editors in CL.  We may not actually be that far
>away.

  Oh no! Not the dreaded "lets write a LispOS from scratch" thread
again! :-)

  The LispM environment is the result of a lot of very smart people
putting in a lot of years work on it. It's not something that is
easily duplicated.

  Mike McDonald
  mikemac@mikemac.com