[LMH]FPGA / microcode

[Brian Mastenbrook]

> 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.

If you haven't been paying attention, you ought to look at what the 
rest of the lisp world is doing with cirCLe:

http://ww.telent.net/diary/

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Brian Mastenbrook
bmastenb@cs.indiana.edu
http://cs.indiana.edu/~bmastenb/