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2024-12-14 17:02 UTC

@sgharms If you mean a minimal Lisp OS, if it stayed up I don't think there would be much difference with traditional operating systems: the specific program would continue to run in the minimal Lisp environment. What's unique of a Lisp Machine environment is that the operating system, the development environment and tools, the programs under development, and the deployed programs run inside and share the same address space. Each of these entities can access, interact with & change the others.

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  • @sgharms@techhub.social 2024-12-14 18:36

    @amoroso 1. I think what I find interesting about e.g. Medley is that instead of e.g. the web stack where I have to get a minimal UI (html; or factored into the JS framework du jour) and roll in a styling framework (e.g. Tailwind) the minimal “OS” of medley provides all that out of the box. I consider all the time we’ve wasted doing this boilerplate chore again and again for every app. Am I correct in sensing Medley is an escape from that? Or perhaps to rephrase: what does Medley offer versus say a minimal *ix with X and twm? 2. RE: your characterization of the LispM: I think something many of us miss is how this differs from a shell on a Unix system? Is it b/c the process model segregates user land from your application?

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