2024-12-14 18:47 UTC
@sgharms 1. Back then Medley offered what now we consider a full desktop distro like Ubuntu or Fedora, not just a minimal one with X and twm. Medley offered OS kernel, window system, network stack, print manager, Lisp interpreters and compilers, Lisp libraries, debugger and dev tools, applications (eg word processor), and more. Everything had a public Lisp API or could be called and accessed from Lisp, down to the individual function (think calling a single Firefox C++ function while it runs).
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@amoroso@fosstodon.org 2024-12-14 18:49
@sgharms 2 Yes, that's more or less it. Medley is as if you could call or access a single piece of the kernel or a running program from the shell or other parts of the system (the Firefox example in 1.).