I love this quote (from Interlisp-D: Overview and Status):
"Interlisp is a very large software system and large software systems are not easy to construct. Interlisp-D has on the order of 17,000 lines of Lisp code, 6,000 lines of Bcpl, and 4,000 lines of microcode."
They have an informative website and an online emulator at https://interlisp.org/software/access-online/
Retro lisp machines are cool. Kudos to the team. Love it.
That said… we need the “lisp machine” of the future more than we need a recreation.
What does a Lisp Machine of the future look like?
There is Mezzano [1] as well as the Interlisp project described in the linked paper and another project resurrecting the LMI software.
[1] https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
I love this quote (from Interlisp-D: Overview and Status):
"Interlisp is a very large software system and large software systems are not easy to construct. Interlisp-D has on the order of 17,000 lines of Lisp code, 6,000 lines of Bcpl, and 4,000 lines of microcode."
So large. :)
http://www.softwarepreservation.net/projects/LISP/interlisp-...
Same thing could probably be some 200k or more LoC in enterprise Java.
A better URL:
https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/interlisp...