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Symbolics Lisp Machine UI Examples

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Re: Symbolics Lisp Machine UI Examples

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As far back as I can remember, lispm.de was hosted on some guy's personal box, so it was prone to downtime and simply being overwhelmed. Come on, man. We're living in the era of clouds and virtual server images. Servers are cattle, not pets.

> Servers are cattle, not pets. That is for the owner of the server to decide, not an universal truth.

I have pet servers!

Cuddles a server

Re: Symbolics Lisp Machine UI Examples

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As far back as I can remember, lispm.de was hosted on some guy's personal box, so it was prone to downtime and simply being overwhelmed. Come on, man. We're living in the era of clouds and virtual server images. Servers are cattle, not pets.

> Servers are cattle, not pets. That is for the owner of the server to decide, not an universal truth.

I suspect a lot of the people who view servers as cattle probably haven't had to maintain bare metal hardware, or do serious ops work. It makes sense that you wouldn't get attached to an EC2 instance--most of the "fun" [sic] has been taken out of it.

Re: Symbolics Lisp Machine UI Examples

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IIRC that site is hosted on a Raspberry Pi running SBCL and CL-HTTP, if it could handle HN traffic it would be just magical.

Since the website is not up I decided to fish for a video showing Open Genera stuff elsewhere to share with you fine folk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4-YnLpLgtk

Unfortunately there is no easy way for we to play with open genera since its proprietary and expensive. The world would be a better place if this type of system popped up more often.

For those interested in Lisp I recommend the book "Land of Lisp" http://landoflisp.com/ or if you're more like a Racketeer then "Realm of Racket" http://realmofracket.com/

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