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This says PDP-7. https://www.reddit.com/r/westworld/comments/56tkt8/what_prog...

Then maybe also give a nod to the LINC, showing DEC a small 12-bit computer could be made.

BASIC was developed on GE mainframes.

Chaosnet was inspired by the experimental 3 Mbits/s Ethernet in use at Xerox PARC at the time. Experimental Ethernet has a 8-bit node address; Chaosnet has 16 bits, of which 8 is n…

Chaosnet in active use, mostly on emulators: https://chaosnet.net/ Lispm, PDP-10, PDP-11, VAX.

Yes, and in Ethernet frames as EtherType 0x0804.

"Her barbell is a special women's barbell." FYI, it was probably just a regular women's weightlifting barbell. They are somewhat lighter, and have a thinner grip. Maybe she's serio…

By the way, I also coded a QR symbol generator in PDP-10 assembly language. https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/src/lars/qrcode.8

I hand drew this on a whiteboard. It was a lot more work than I anticipated. http://lars.nocrew.org/tmp/qr.png

The LINC minicomputer operating system LAP6 came with a 4x5 font, but it didn't have lower case.

It's built into the Unix terminal driver. Control-U is the default, but it can be changed with e.g. "stty kill". Libraries like readline also support it.

Just type Control-U once.

https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/2028903268265672728

Jonathan Blow: "It’s about a compiler written in Python FFS."

https://www.sbcl.org/history.html https://cmucl.org/doc/cmucl-history.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice_Lisp

SBCL has been in the works since 1980.

Source: "The Invention of Forth", by Chuck Moore. https://colorforth.github.io/HOPL.html

Emacs is needed because it provides Emacs Lisp.

Forth was invented before Moore worked at NRAO. Granted, it was gradually expanded from a very small interpreter, so it's hard to say exactly when it became "Forth" as we mean it t…

Sorry, I don't know anything about Emacs graphics. Some people confuse me with larsi, but I'm not that guy.

Lisp dialects have diverged quite a bit, and it would be a lot of work to bridge the differences to a degree approaching 100%. 90% is easy, but only works for small trivial program…

Having read that, I'm even less convinced it's not more than a toy.

I don't see how unexec would help with "decoupling the core from Emacs" since the core is written in Emacs Lisp.

I think misinterpreting the "el" as Spanish is fun. In that vein, your game could be called ElCiudad.

Portability across Lisp dialects is usually not a thing. Even Emacs Lisp and Common Lisp which are arguably pretty close rarely if ever share code. You could make a frontend for di…