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Genera for the Initiated: Inside Symbolics Lisp Machines

Lobsters Hottest ↗ · 2026-10-20 Cached

Philip (PHF) gives a talk tracing the history of Symbolics Lisp machines and the Genera operating system — from McCarthy's Lisp and the metacircular evaluator, garbage collection, Engelbart's "Mother of All Demos," Tom Knight's Knight TV and the CADR architecture, through to the MIT team founding Symbolics — culminating in a live demo of Genera.

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Symbolics OpenGenera to go free for non-commercial use

Lobsters Hottest ↗ · 2026-08-05

Symbolics OpenGenera, the legendary Lisp machine environment, is being released free for non-commercial use.

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