why is there not a lisp pc?
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From: Alan Mackenzie on 31 Dec 2009 06:13 gavino <gavcomedy(a)gmail.com> wrote: > How was the interface on lisp machines? Any gui? graphics? video? The interface was great. Yes, there was a gui - the LM was one of the pioneers in the use of high resolution bit mapped graphics. Yes there was graphics. Video? That's the Latin for "I see", and has no single meaning in the realm of computing. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
From: Alan Mackenzie on 31 Dec 2009 06:19 gavino <gavcomedy(a)gmail.com> wrote: > would it be possible to write something like X windows in lisp? Of course. You could write something like X windows in Cobol if you really wanted to. The Lisp Machine had a windowing system. It is likely (though I don't know for sure) that X Windows would have taken ideas, possibly even design elements, from the LM windowing system. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
From: gavino on 31 Dec 2009 06:24 On Dec 31, 6:13 am, Alan Mackenzie <a...(a)muc.de> wrote: > gavino <gavcom...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > How was the interface on lisp machines? Any gui? graphics? video? > > The interface was great. Yes, there was a gui - the LM was one of the > pioneers in the use of high resolution bit mapped graphics. Yes there > was graphics. > > Video? That's the Latin for "I see", and has no single meaning in the > realm of computing. > > -- > Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). Oww cool. I took 6 years of latin. Forgive me. Lisp machine sounds capable. Video I mean something where one could play small clips in a player like mplayer. If they had something to capture video I am guna fall off my seat.
From: gavino on 31 Dec 2009 06:27 On Dec 31, 6:19 am, Alan Mackenzie <a...(a)muc.de> wrote: > gavino <gavcom...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > would it be possible to write something like X windows in lisp? > > Of course. You could write something like X windows in Cobol if you > really wanted to. > > The Lisp Machine had a windowing system. It is likely (though I don't > know for sure) that X Windows would have taken ideas, possibly even > design elements, from the LM windowing system. > > -- > Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). WOW have you ever seen the youtube [I think it was youtube] of the "demo to end all demos" at standfor I think in the 70s? It had apparently video in 128k and showed an engineer somewhere in a lab talking to the demostrater. There was something about alan kay asking UCLA students how they did it? Mr Kay said only one answered correctly: "beacause they wanted to!" http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.html
From: Alan Mackenzie on 31 Dec 2009 07:07
gavino <gavcomedy(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Dec 31, 6:13?am, Alan Mackenzie <a...(a)muc.de> wrote: >> gavino <gavcom...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> > How was the interface on lisp machines? Any gui? graphics? video? >> The interface was great. ?Yes, there was a gui - the LM was one of the >> pioneers in the use of high resolution bit mapped graphics. ?Yes there >> was graphics. >> Video? ?That's the Latin for "I see", and has no single meaning in the >> realm of computing. >> -- >> Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). > Oww cool. I took 6 years of latin. Forgive me. > Lisp machine sounds capable. > Video I mean something where one could play small clips in a player > like mplayer. > If they had something to capture video I am guna fall off my seat. No, there was nothing like this. The technology didn't exist yet. This was in the mid-1980s when hard disk sizes, even on expensive workstations, was measured in tens and hundreds of megabytes. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |