LM-3 --- resurrecting the MIT CADR

System 300.0 has NOW been released. You can get it from https://tumbleweed.nu/system-300-0-release/. Please upgrade from System 100 as soon as possible, System 300 contains numerous fixes that make it usable on the Global Chaosnet.

News and Announcements (Old entries)

• System 300 has been released; this incorperates all changes in System 100, and a start of a new chapter. [2023-10-21]
• Many fixes for System 100 have been made available; please update [2023-06-27]
• System 100.0 is NOW released! [2023-03-16]
• Added GNU Texinfo conversion of the Operating the Lisp Machine document [2022-11-04]
• Enabled the Chat feature in Fossil. [2022-11-04]
• System 99 now boots again! [2022-08-09]
• System 98 now boots again! [2022-05-03]
• The email gateway for BUG-LISPM is now working again! [2022-05-01]
• Added SUPDUP Protocol description. [2022-04-17]

Comments, suggestions, or criticisms are welcomed. Please send to BUG-LISPM, the Chat or visit #lispm on irc.libera.chat.

Umbrella projects

These are umbrella projects that contain documentation and programs to make it easier setting up the MIT CADR and Lisp Machine environment either for normal use, or bootstrapping and debugging.

• Lisp Machine Working Directory (L)
• Lisp Machine Bootstrapping Working Directory (ZETA)
• Currently open bugs

System sources, bands and microcode

• System source tree
• System 300.0 world loads, disk image, etc.
  • Patches for minor versions of System 300.
• System 100.0 (aka., System 99.32) world loads, disk image, etc.
  • Patches for minor versions of System 100.
• Standalone Lisp Machine site configuration (suitable for usim)

Old System source trees

These are mostly interesting from historical perspective, all versions that work will be available in SYS repository at some point in time.

• System 46.??, microcode 694
• System 78.48+, microcode 841
• System 86.59, microcode 148
• System 98.1, microcode 301
• System 99.32, microcode 322
• System 130, microcode ??? (currently only for Lambda)

Simulator / HDL

• MIT CADR simulator (version: TBD)
• LMI Lambda simulator (version: TBD)
• MIT CADR HDL (version: TBD)
• Chaosnet for Unix (version: TBD)

Bootstrapping hacks

• Zeta Lisp for Common Lisp (ZL)
• Random support hacks that aren't in Zeta Lisp (ZLUDGE)
• Serial port library for Common Lisp (SERIAL-PORT)
• Hack for ASDF to modify file properties on a per file basis (ASDF-FLV)

Documentation

Lisp Machine

• Operating the Lisp Machine
• Lisp Machine Manual, current (previous editions: 2nd ed., 4th ed., 5th ed., 6th ed. )
• Introduction to Using the Window System, current (previous editions: 1.1 ed. )
• Lisp Machine System Release History
• Notes on the Lisp Machine
• Lisp Machine Manual Editions
• LISP Machine Progress Report (1977)
• Various pictures of the Lisp Machine

CADR

• The CADR Microprocessor
• Implementation of a List Processing Machine
• CADR Schematics

• Chaosnet
• The SUPDUP Protocol
• NFILE - A File Access Protocol (RFC 1073)

Other things ...

• The Global Chaosnet

Please send questions or bug reports to BUG-LISPM.

Last modified: 2023/12/09 14:32:41 (UTC) by ams