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The Symbolics Lisp User's Group mailing list archives and information. SLUG is the ideal mailing list to join if you work with Lisp Machines, especially Symbolics ones. Many Lisp hackers still subscribe, including current and ex-employees of the company, and your technical and historical questions are quickly answered.
http://www.ai.sri.com/mailing-lists/slug/
Information on the TI S1500 Unix machine and its sibling the TI Explorer Lisp Machine.
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TI S1500 and Explorer information Unix servers that is available online. These pages are still under construction; I intend to add more information soon TI's 1500 series was a relatively successful range of 68020/030/040-based multi- and singleprocessor systems that ran TI System V, an AT&T...A document describing and giving schematics for converting a Xerox optical mouse for use with a Symbolics LispM. More useful today for Symbolics users who need technical information on their mouse connector and how to go about attaching other pointing devices in its place.
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x2sb-mouse This describes the connections to convert a Xerox 3 button optical mouse (15 or 9 pin connector) to be used with a Symbolics machine. Earlier optical mice have the 15 pin connector, but the one we bought in winter of...Miscellaneous information and meta-information on LISP Machines, mostly small practical details not covered by other pages, for people who'd like to discover the fantastic lost world of LISP Machines.
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A few things I know about LISP Machines I learnt many things about them in the process that were not documented anywhere on the web, I thought I'd write a page about them. Most of the material I publish is just trivia or curiosity; for more useful or...Ralf Möller's extensive collection of Symbolics LispM information, including hardware photos, exhibitions of both system and application software (including screen captures), pointers (locatives) to other online collections, some assorted information on competitive LispM systems, and some useful hacks for Genera (including a mouse acceleration hack).
http://www.sts.tu-harburg.de/~r....er/symbolics-info/symbolics.html
A draft of a paper by P. T. Withington investigating the Lisp Machine and how it both succeeded and failed in the face of the RISC workstation revolution. Also a good introduction to what a Lisp Machine is and why they were invented.
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The Lisp Machine Machine has been deprecated in view of the demise of many Lisp Machine vendors, the swing towards standardization, and the advances that reduced instruction set (RISC) architectures have brought. But rumors of its death are greatly exaggerated. Unlike most commercial...The extended abstract of an unpublished paper (the header is a fib, it was pulled at the last minute) on the design and implementation of the Symbolics VLM, a virtual machine implementing the Symbolics Ivory architecture on the DEC Alpha systems.
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The Symbolics Virtual Lisp Machine Genera system represents the accumulation of nearly three and a half decades of software engineering tools, written in several dialects of the Lisp language and several object-oriented extensions to Lisp. Traditionally, Genera has run on a Lisp Machine, a line...