How about LispOS on Mach/Hurd?

Hannes Haug hannes.haug@student.uni-tuebingen.de
Fri, 25 Apr 1997 23:11:51 +0200 (MESZ)


On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, P. Srinivas wrote:

> One more possible idea is to take microkernal like Mach or
> the Hurd and write the servers in LISP.

The microkernal of GNU is Mach. The Hurd are some Mach servers
for filesystems, networking, ...

Mach's external pagers would perhaps be a good thing.

> We can probably work with GNU OS guys. If people like Guile idea, we
> can probably merge Guile and Hurd somehow. FSF also might be interested
> in this idea.

I think RMS would like the idea of a LispM personality for GNU.

 -hh