Symbolics Lisp Machine UI Examples

[sabalaba]

http://lispm.de/symbolics-ui-examples/symbolics-ui-examples.html

[soapdog]

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/

[lispm]

The page with lots of images on a tiny ARM board is not made for Hackernews traffic. Not a good idea to submit it to Hackernews. Sorry.

[seanmcdirmid → lispm]

Couldn't someone just mirror this?

[eschaton → lispm]

Have you considered hosting the images on imgur or another such site, at least during HN traffic?

Until such time as people can reasonably get their hands on OpenGenera (which I gather might now be in the hands of CL-HTTP's author) people are going to be pretty interested in things like this and Kalman Reti's recent YouTube video.

[networked → eschaton]

You could also use CoralCDN (http://www.coralcdn.org/) for the images on your page, which would mirror them automatically. Unfortunately, if you try to submit a link to *.nyud.net to HN directly it turns out dead.

[tempodox → lispm]

Maybe we should start a collection and afford the OP a box that is HN-proof. A Lisp Machine Hall Of Fame should be worth it :-)

[look_lookatme → lispm]

You can host the images themselves on Imgur.

[zachrose]

I would really like to see any pictures of Symbolics hardware or screenshots of Genera. I used to work with a guy who wrote CAD software on these in the 80s and he made it sound really cool.

[bitwize]

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.

[q3k → bitwize]

> Servers are cattle, not pets.

That is for the owner of the server to decide, not an universal truth.

[RX14 → q3k]

I have pet servers!

Cuddles a server

[angersock → q3k]

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.

[scrumper]

I came across this a couple of months ago. It's very interesting and worth a look: I'd urge anyone interested to bookmark the page and try again in a few days.

[seanmcdirmid]

The link doesn't work for me, and I'm outside the GFW right now, so maybe the site is down?

[JasonFruit → seanmcdirmid]

What's a GFW?

EDIT:

Never mind: Great Firewall of China.

[seanmcdirmid → JasonFruit]

I figure anyone who is reading right now is in Asia (too early for Europe, too late for USA).

[nocman → seanmcdirmid]

You're wrong. I'm in the USA, and I just tried to read it.

(and the link doesn't work for me either)

There have to be so many "night owls" on this site, I can't imagine why you would think it would be too late in the US to try at this hour.

[seanmcdirmid → nocman]

It would be too late in the US for most of the user base to be from the US; the users posting begin shifting to Asia and in a few hours to Europe. Fascinating to watch how the comments change accordingly.

[dropit_sphere → seanmcdirmid]

Never underestimate the insomnia of hackers.

[kjs3 → seanmcdirmid]

Dead for me as well.

[quink → kjs3]

http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=http%3a%2f%2flispm.de%2fsym...

No luck on Internet Archive/Google.

This page I think has some images from the same domain:

http://ffffound.com/home/fish2000/post/

Server used to be on lispm.dyndns.org previously, so that may be a clue as to why it's dead atm.

[kayman → kjs3]

Ditto, dead for me too

[spariev]

I've made a mirror for the images - http://imgur.com/a/KsSaA and http://imgur.com/a/3BtzZ

[outworlder]

Aw, come on. Someone please mirror this. I find everything by Symbolics to be fascinating - and decades ahead of its time.

[djfdev]

The fact that this is broken really says it all

[coldtea → djfdev]

Really? Like what? You know that that the server is based in some entirely different technology right?