Symbolics Open Genera
click to enlarge
click to enlarge
Better screen shots from other people:
"You can't get to the moon by piling up chairs."
Support This Site
Bitcoin, by popular demand: 14HRdapiCevEs155gGGb6iPdps4fx1XszLCategories
- Bitcoin (6)
- Books (6)
- Cold Air (9)
- Computation (6)
- Copyright (3)
- Distractions (26)
- Hardware (18)
- Hot Air (48)
- Idea (8)
- Lisp (25)
- LispMachine (9)
- LoperOS (19)
- Mathematics (7)
- Memory (5)
- MIT (2)
- ModestProposal (9)
- NonLoper (60)
- Papers (3)
- Philosophy (34)
- Photo (7)
- Physics (1)
- Predictions (5)
- Progress (7)
- Reactions (2)
- ShouldersGiants (17)
- SoftwareArchaeology (17)
- SoftwareSucks (33)
- Symbolics (8)
- Uncategorized (1)
About
People
- Abstract Heresies
- Angry Unix Programmer
- Arcane Sentiment
- Axis of Eval
- Bryan Bishop
- Chris Harrison
- Dan Weinreb
- Dmitry Orlov
- Don Lancaster
- Doron Zeilberger
- Erik Naggum
- Freedom to Tinker
- Frozenlock
- Greg Egan
- Ilkka Kokkarinen
- Imagine27
- Irreal
- John Walker
- Lambda the Ultimate
- Lemonodor
- Less Wrong
- Lichtblau
- Lispian
- Micro_Research
- Mircea Popescu
- Moron Lab
- Neil Dickson
- Overcoming Bias
- Pascal Costanza
- Paul Graham
- Peter Woit
- Philip Greenspun
- Richard Gabriel
- Richard Kulisz
- Roly Perera
- Scott Locklin
- Shtetl-Optimized
- Steve Dutch
- Structural Insight
- Ted Nelson
- Terence Tao
- Terry Davis
- Theodore Gray
- Uncle Al
- Unenumerated
- Unqualified Reservations
- Xah Lee
Popular Posts
- Bitcoin, or How to Hammer in Nails with a Microscope.
- Engelbart’s Violin
- Going Nowhere Really Fast, or How Computers Only Come in Two Speeds.
- No Formats, no Format Wars.
- Non-Apple’s Mistake
- Steam Lisp
- Stierlitz, the Fearless, Driver-Less Bus Analyzer.
- The Wisdom of Erik Naggum
- Thumbs Down for Clojure
- Where Lisp Fails: at Turning People into Fungible Cogs.
- Why Hypercard Had to Die
Sub-Projects
Vintage
Archives
- May 2013
- April 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- July 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- January 2011
- November 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
Meta
Hi
Is the machine on the first picture an Alpha workstation? I looked into buying one a few years ago for OpenGenera, but the only one I found was an old 100MHz machine with Windows NT BIOS. Could you give the specs of this machine?
The machine pictured above is a DEC Alpha 600AU (http://www.compaq.com/alphaserver/workstations/retired/auseries/techspecs.html) – CPU at 600MHz, 1GB of RAM and 180GB of storage (split between three disks.)
My place of business recently purchased a copy of Open Genera from David Schmidt of Symbolics Inc. (http://www.symbolics-dks.com/) and he included this machine as a no-cost extra.
One can still buy more recent, substantially faster Alphas. They are quite expensive.
Regarding your machine: I recall that you can switch the NT BIOS to one appropriate for Tru64 with a toggle inside the BIOS setup (Google for the manual), but running Open Genera at 100MHz is unlikely to satisfy.
Hi?
Is this a DEC workstation? Could you write a little about the specs of the machine, and how well does Genera run on it?
Open Genera runs passably well on this machine, although there is some room for improvement speed-wise. For the specs, please see my reply to the other comment.
Thanks, and sorry for the double comment.
There is a reasonably functional beta version of Genera around for PCs running LINUX. I use it and have had minimal problems with it. It is quite fast too.
Dear B Groves,
Since writing this post, I have switched to that version.
Yours,
-Stanislav