LispOS on a 68000
David Tillman
dtillman@cannonexpress.com
Thu, 14 May 1998 13:47:32 -0500
How feasible would a Lisp/Scheme OS be on a 68000?
Please realize that I am in question-asking-mode here. I have no
idea how Lisp internals are implemented. I am thinking about putting
together a homebrew 68000 or 68030 and it would be nice to run
something besides Forth on it. My concerns are:
a. Speed - If I wirewrap it, I will be stuck to around 8-10MHz.
Not exactly blazing. If I use a 68030, I will probably knock
out a couple PCBs for it and speed won't be quite so much an
issue.
b. Implementation - I don't know enough about Lisp to actually make
my own (not a pretty one, anyway). I could probably hack together
some Lisp/Scheme looking thing, but that wouldn't be quite the same.
Thoughts? Has this road been covered before? I would probably just
communicate with it by way of serial at first; a nice bitmapped display
wouldn't be too hard though.
-Dave
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