Symbolics Lisp Machine and Genera demo
Kalman Reti · Demo · YouTube title: Symbolics Lisp Machine demo Jan 2013
Why it's here
The go-to demo whenever HN discusses what Lisp machines were like and what modern shells and editors lack.
What it covers
Symbolics developer Kalman Reti gives a short introductory demo of a Symbolics Lisp Machine running Genera in an emulator. It shows the context-aware command line, typed on-screen objects, and the live-editable system, including swapping in a C-compiled JPEG decoder.