[HN Gopher] The Medley Interlisp Project: Reviving a Historical ...
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       The Medley Interlisp Project: Reviving a Historical Software System
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       Author : pamoroso
       Score  : 71 points
       Date   : 2025-06-29 14:45 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (interlisp.org)
        
       | phaer wrote:
       | They have an informative website and an online emulator at
       | https://interlisp.org/software/access-online/
        
       | pfdietz wrote:
       | I love this quote (from Interlisp-D: Overview and Status):
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       | "Interlisp is a very large software system and large software
       | systems are not easy to construct. Interlisp-D has on the order
       | of 17,000 lines of Lisp code, 6,000 lines of Bcpl, and 4,000
       | lines of microcode."
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       | So large. :)
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       | http://www.softwarepreservation.net/projects/LISP/interlisp-...
        
         | pmcjones wrote:
         | A better URL:
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         | https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/interlisp...
        
         | zelphirkalt wrote:
         | Same thing could probably be some 200k or more LoC in
         | enterprise Java.
        
       | jshaqaw wrote:
       | Retro lisp machines are cool. Kudos to the team. Love it.
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       | That said... we need the "lisp machine" of the future more than
       | we need a recreation.
        
         | rjsw wrote:
         | What does a Lisp Machine of the future look like?
         | 
         | There is Mezzano [1] as well as the Interlisp project described
         | in the linked paper and another project resurrecting the LMI
         | software.
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         | [1] https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
        
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