How to Recognize a Dark Age

Published at: 04:05 pm - Friday May 30 2008

Anyone who has read CS papers from ~1960-1980 and compared the original-idea-density to those of today might think forbidden thoughts. While meandering through stories of unorthodox computational architectures, I was overcome with a sharp feeling of “where are they now?” Who stole the original thinkers of that era, and planted type-theoretical bureaucrats in their place? […]

Posted in: Hot Air, Papers, Philosophy, ShouldersGiants, SoftwareArchaeology by Stanislav 2 Comments

Still Alive

Published at: 02:05 pm - Wednesday May 14 2008

In the unlikely event that someone is still reading this, I would like to point out: the project lives. I am still trying to figure out just how much resemblance to a proper Lisp Machine can be savagely beaten into an AMD Opteron. The focus remains on low-level details of the variety which, when changed, […]

Posted in: LoperOS by Stanislav 1 Comment