Slow down!!

[Dwight Hughes]

| From: Pierpaolo Bernardi <bernardp@CLI.DI.Unipi.IT>
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|    Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 00:26:55 -0700
|    From: Mike McDonald <mikemac@titian.engr.sgi.com>
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| 
|      I think everyone is in too big a hurry here.
|      [...]
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| 
| Folks, maybe we have taken Mike's suggestion a little to much seriously? 
8-)
| 
| Is there anything going on?
| 
| 
| Pierpaolo.

Ahhh, well, what we do we do very well indeed :-b.

Seems that we have gotten trapped waiting for the next Flux OSkit to come
out.
Real Soon Now has taken on its usual meaning of Don't Hold Your Breath.

For myself, I have been doing a considerable amount of research into the
state
of the art in OS implementation and design as might be relevant to LispOS.
I
told ET that I would write all this up about a month ago for his site
(sorry -
real life has proven stubbornly intrusive). Since it seems to be a never
ending
task, I will post a rough draft here in the next few days.

I have also come up with a possible way to get this project on the road
again,
though it might require doing away with the artificial separation between
LispOS
and LispVM. I will post this separately, hopefully today. I don't mean to
be
mysterious or anything -- what I am considering is effectively a Lisp
version
of the Squeak Smalltalk environment as a starting point (yes, written as an
OS
on a VM to begin with), but I would like to detail some of my thoughts
about
how to do this, and some design decisions used in Squeak that could be
extremely
useful for creating LispOS.

-- Dwight