Genera

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Genera was an operating system and development environment for Lisp machines developed by Symbolics. It was essentially a fork of an earlier operating system originating on the MIT AI Lab's Lisp machines which Symbolics had used in common with LMI. The ~1.5 million lines of code that made up Genera are written in various Lisp dialects, with a number of extensions (such as for object-oriented programming) folded in.

Reportedly, there are efforts to port it to the Macintosh G5. [1]

External links

• Symbolics
  • Symbolics Genera Integrated Development Environment
  • "Symbolics Technical Summary"
  • "Genera Concepts" - (Web copy of Symbolic's introduction to Genera)
• A page of screenshots of Genera
• Screenshots of the award-winning Symbolics Document Examiner
• "The Symbolics Virtual Lisp Machine, Or, Using The Dec Alpha As A Programmable Micro-engine"

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