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The Medley Interlisp Project: Reviving a Historical Software System [pdf]

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117 points pamoroso | 5 comments | 29 Jun 25 14:45 UTC | HN request time: 1.04s | source
1. kps ◴[30 Jun 25 14:06 UTC] No.44423456[source]▶
~wavy lines~~ I've never used this in anger, but I owned a second-hand Xerox Daybreak for a while to play around with. Later, there was a some freely available project (I've now forgotten) that used Interlisp running on an emulator running on a DEC Alpha, and so I added some minor bits to NetBSD's Ultrix compatibility.
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2. rjsw ◴[30 Jun 25 14:49 UTC] No.44424053[source]▶
The Lisp Machine emulator that was tied to DEC Alpha was Symbolics OpenGenera.
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3. kps ◴[30 Jun 25 16:55 UTC] No.44425457[source]▶
Made me look: Xerox LFG Grammar Writer's Workbench: https://web.archive.org/web/20170907021542/https://www2.parc...

Interlisp screenshot: https://web.archive.org/web/20160616231118/http://www2.parc....

Evidently the emulator was later ported to Linux as well.

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4. pamoroso ◴[30 Jun 25 19:14 UTC] No.44426827{3}[source]▶
Did you use LFG Grammar Writer's Workbench for linguistics work or research back then? Ron Kaplan is looking to revive the system and make it run on Medley Interlisp again.
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5. kps ◴[30 Jun 25 19:25 UTC] No.44426925{4}[source]▶
Personally, neither — I just used it as a way to get a copy of Interlisp to play with.