The Unix Haters' Handbook

[Liam Proven]

On 08/04/2008, Alexander Schreiber <als at thangorodrim.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 09:22:02AM +0200, Jochen Kunz wrote:
>  > On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 03:56:14 +0100
>  > "Liam Proven" <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >
>  > > I know SQR(fsck all) about Lisp Machines, but in these days of
>  > > high-powered PCs, would it be viable to create some form of
>  > > implementation of the LispM OS on x86? Even if it required some kind
>  > > of emulation layer underneath for content-addressable memory or
>  > > whatever?
>  > http://labs.aezenix.com/lispm/index.php?title=VLM_On_Linux
>  >
>  > VLM On Linux
>  >
>  > This file gives some additional hints on running the Symbolics Virtual
>  > Lisp Machine (VLM) port to Linux/x86_64 by Brad Parker.
>  > [...]
>
>
> There is also a Lisp on bare-metal-x86, project Movitz:
>  http://common-lisp.net/project/movitz/
>
>  It would probably be a good idea to port it against the Xen PVM
>  interface - this would solve the pesky issue of hardware drivers quite
>  elegantly ;-)

Fascinating. Thanks for that.

I was going to say that running it under Xen or something would rather
miss the point, inasmuch as that brings all the baggage of having Unix
underneath - but then, coincidentally, today I read this:

<http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Infrastructure/Novell-Developing-Standalone-Xen-Based-Hypervisor-Product/>

The URL is quite informative in itself, really, but the article opens thus:

_Novell Developing Stand-Alone Xen-Based Hypervisor Product_

*Novell's hypervisor product will be available later in 2008 and is
based on the Xen hypervisor found in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.*

Novell is quietly working on a stand-alone hypervisor product that
will be based on the Xen hypervisor found in SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server 10.

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