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From: Richard Lawrence on 25 Apr 2010 21:10 Thanks to all who have replied! Looks like VirtualBox OSE may be the way for me to go for now, though I may also try my hand at QEMU. I found another lisp-based OS I might want to play around with, and they have QEMU images ready to boot: http://losak.sourceforge.net/ Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87pr1n10jt.fsf(a)berkeley.edu
From: ghe on 25 Apr 2010 21:40 On 4/25/10 7:10 PM, Richard Lawrence wrote: > http://losak.sourceforge.net/ A Lisp OS!!??? Could be, I guess. I once worked at a place where they claimed to have written an accounting package in BASIC. I think I'd stick with VirtualBox... -- Glenn English ghe(a)slsware.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4BD4EDB9.3000105(a)slsware.com
From: John Hasler on 25 Apr 2010 23:00 Glenn English writes: > A Lisp OS!!??? Pikers. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine> > I once worked at a place where they claimed to have written an > accounting package in BASIC. I used a commercial accounting package written in BASIC. Worked fine. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87sk6j6ipb.fsf(a)thumper.dhh.gt.org
From: Ron Johnson on 26 Apr 2010 02:00 On 04/25/2010 09:39 PM, John Hasler wrote: > Glenn English writes: >> A Lisp OS!!??? > > Pikers.<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine> > >> I once worked at a place where they claimed to have written an >> accounting package in BASIC. > > I used a commercial accounting package written in BASIC. Worked fine. Snot-nosed kids never heard of Business BASIC or MAI Basic-4, or know the sublime beauty of COBOL written by masters of the craft. -- Dissent is patriotic, remember? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4BD529AB.10909(a)cox.net
From: Mark Allums on 26 Apr 2010 04:00
On 4/25/2010 8:34 PM, ghe wrote: > On 4/25/10 7:10 PM, Richard Lawrence wrote: > >> http://losak.sourceforge.net/ > > A Lisp OS!!??? > > Could be, I guess. I once worked at a place where they claimed to have > written an accounting package in BASIC. I think I'd stick with > VirtualBox... > Am I detecting sarcasm? A flashback to the late seventies? Seriously, all accounting packages were written in BASIC until the early nineties, at least. Still are, if you count MS Visual Basic as BASIC. MAA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4BD5478B.7060302(a)allums.com |