[LMH]FPGA / microcode

[Jaap Weel]

"I was an old fart when I was in my twenties"
      -- Alan Kay

Don't be too offended; just realize that there was a LispOS mailing 
list that discussed for 2 entire years about CL vs. Scheme, VM vs. 
native, from scratch vs. Linux-based. The list archive greatly exceeds 
in size the code that was ever written. Hence, there is a strong 
feeling among people who have witnessed these endless discussions 
before that talking about "LispOS" on mailing lists is intrinsically 
wasteful of time.

All that said, please do check out Movitz.

	/jaap



On 5 Mar 2004, at 12:46, Mike McDonald wrote:
>> To: Robert Swindells <rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk>
>>
>> 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