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From: smcl@sytex.com (Scott McLoughlin)
Subject: Re: For Sale: Explorer Lisp Machines
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kem@prl.ufl.edu (Kelly Murray) writes:

> In any case, what would be the benefit?  The sources use Flavors very heavily
> which is "old technology", and the window system is a mess that
> wouldn't mesh well with an X-based implementation.

Howdy,
        The benefit (I think) relates to some of my previous
postings concerning language use/understanding and implementation
"machine models".  While lots of nice Lisp interpreters have been
implemented and written about for largely pedagogical purposes
(Kamen's interpreters, X-Lisp, Lisp-in-lisp in various texts,
etc.) the same has not (to my knowledge, anyway) been done with
a Lisp compiler.
        So, I've been daydreaming (in my "spare time") about
boot strap issues, tiny Lisp "kernels", meta-compilation
issues towards implementing such a system. How nifty to bootstrap
a Lisp by emulating the CPU of a Lisp machine. Now that's a 
Lisp kernel.
        Oh well. Too bad about the licensing issues.

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Scott McLoughlin
Conscious Computing
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