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  1. Get it to work on here and we’re golden https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
    comment by user3939382 · 2025-08-24 · in Seed: Interactive software environment based on Common Lisp
  2. …map, so you can suspend, turn off the power, and resume where you were when the power comes back. https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano https://github.com/mntmn/interim Now try to crowbar SBCL into this, and as many libraries and frameworks…
    comment by lproven · 2025-07-01 · in The Medley Interlisp Project: Reviving a Historical Software System [pdf]
  3. …project described in the linked paper and another project resurrecting the LMI software. [1] https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
    comment by rjsw · 2025-06-29 · in The Medley Interlisp Project: Reviving a Historical Software System [pdf]
  4. …a much more recent OS written in Common Lisp that runs on Arm rather than special hardware: https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
    comment by mepian · 2025-03-23 · in Recommendation for non-DOS/Unix open source OS outside x86/X64
  5. https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
    comment by lispm · 2024-09-25 · in Genera Retrospective: "the world's first commercial object-oriented OS" (1991)
  6. Have you made or plan to make any contributions to Mezzano ( https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano ) or are you mainly interested in seeing how far you can take this thing on your own?
    comment by Jach · 2023-11-07 · in A standalone zero-dependency Lisp for Linux
  7. …Lisp * CL-PPCRE https://github.com/edicl/cl-ppcre/ * Mezzano USB driver https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano/blob/master/drivers/usb/m... PHP * Carbon https://github.com/briannesbitt/Carbon * Laravel https://github.com/laravel/larav
    comment by culi · 2023-06-17 · in Ask HN: What are some of the most elegant codebases in your favorite language?
  8. …my opinion, especially for an operating system. For example, this is the USB mass storage driver: https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano/blob/master/drivers/usb/m...
    comment by mepian · 2023-06-17 · in Ask HN: What are some of the most elegant codebases in your favorite language?
  9. …I've heard people wrote some OSes in the past, like Genera. Or if you prefer recent attempt, try https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano . Never tried it, though.
    comment by anta40 · 2023-05-07 · in Why Lisp?
  10. …then lowered to a subset of CL which is then compiled by the trusted native Mezzano compiler. [0] https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano/
    comment by phoe-krk · 2023-01-21 · in Kernel-WASM: Sandboxed kernel mode WebAssembly runtime for Linux
  11. …an OS in Lisp be Cool" Froggey [2]. [1] https://github.com/clasp-developers/clasp [2] Mezzano https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
    comment by mgsouth · 2022-12-26 · in What help is needed for Lisp community in order to make Lisp more popular?
  12. You might want to look at Mezzano which is an operation system written in Common Lisp https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano I haven’t tried it since moving to M1/ARM, but it is cool.
    comment by mark_l_watson · 2022-12-04 · in Emacs should become a Wayland compositor
  13. Why not use an existing Lisp implementation that has a good compiler? Or just run Mezzano [1]. [1] https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
    comment by rjsw · 2022-12-04 · in Emacs should become a Wayland compositor
  14. Mezzano is a recent Common Lisp OS: https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
    comment by lispm · 2022-11-04 · in Why Lisp?
  15. Mezzano: https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano Interlisp: https://interlisp.org
    comment by lispm · 2022-10-22 · in Ask HN: Operating Systems built with functional languages?
  16. Given that on a Lisp Machine (or in a Lisp OS like Mezzano https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano ), the language talks natively to low-level devices (Graphics, SCSI, Bus, Ethernet, ... and other peripherals), it is expected that it has to…
    comment by lispm · 2022-09-12 · in Common Lisp names all sixteen binary logic gates
  17. Sure, the heritage of Lisp Machines shows that well enough. Or a modern version: https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano Not all GCs are equivalent, though.
    comment by Jach · 2022-08-18 · in The Zimbu programming language
  18. Lisp version :) https://vindarel.github.io/Hacker-Typer/ (from Mezzano OS https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano/ )
    comment by vindarel · 2022-08-02 · in Hacker Typer
  19. …less stratified than you propose we would need to be. 0. https://github.com/marcoheisig/Petalisp 1. https://github.com/froggey/mezzano/ 2. https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/moore/acl2/ 3. https://github.com/coalton-lang/coalton
    comment by moonchild · 2022-04-08 · in TypeScript as fast as Rust: TypeScript++
  20. …should change my articles. [0] https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/Kernel/Ar... [1] https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano/graphs/contributors [2] https://github.com/redox-os/redox/graphs/contributors [3]…
    comment by eatonphil · 2022-04-01 · in The wild world of non-C operating systems
  21. https://common-lisp.net/project/mcclim/ Alternatively a complete OS (not based on SBCL): https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
    comment by lispm · 2021-11-16 · in Ergonomics of the Symbolics Lisp Machine (2014)
  22. …as a language lower than C, and higher than hell. Looks like high level assembler in places. https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano/blob/master/supervisor/x8...
    comment by cyberbanjo · 2021-10-16 · in Mezzano on Librebooted ThinkPads
  23. There is Mezzano: https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
    comment by mepian · 2021-04-27 · in Symbolics Lisp Machine demo (2013) [video]
  24. Agreed. https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano/issues/46
    comment by blue1 · 2021-02-07 · in Mezzano: Operating system written in Common Lisp
  25. I found this comment funny. From the colour.lisp code. https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano/blob/master/gui/colour.li... ;; Mangle & unmangle the vector ordering so the colour matrix ;; layout makes more sense. This could be fixed up by…
    comment by blackrock · 2021-02-07 · in Mezzano: Operating system written in Common Lisp
  26. https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano/blob/f0eeb2a3f032098b394e... I'm not sure what I was expecting, but 110 lines of keyword arguments was a surprise.
    comment by sillysaurusx · 2021-02-07 · in Mezzano: Operating system written in Common Lisp
  27. Some starting points: USB mass storage driver: https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano/blob/master/drivers/usb/m... ext4 file system (read-only): https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano/blob/master/file/ext4.lis... TCP network stack:…
    comment by sanxiyn · 2021-02-07 · in Mezzano: Operating system written in Common Lisp
  28. Most recent release, Demo 5, from July 2020: https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano/tree/demo5 Previous discussions from a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23950558 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20210227…
    comment by podiki · 2021-02-07 · in Mezzano: Operating system written in Common Lisp
  29. …also Mezzano which is a relatively new, from scratch Common Lisp implementation on bare metal: https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano Finally, if you know where to look, it’s possible to setup a Symbolics VM on Linux, which is somewhat…
    comment by fiddlerwoaroof · 2021-01-15 · in A Week with Plan 9
  30. Changes are mentioned here: https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano/tree/demo5
    comment by lispm · 2020-07-25 · in Mezzano (LispOS) Release Demo 5
  31. Instead of Movitz, go for Mezzano [1], which is much more complete [1] https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
    comment by p_l · 2020-07-19 · in Bare metal Smalltalk-80 port to the Raspberry Pi
  32. …things can be done more elegantly. The other project that should be mentioned here is Mezzano ( https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano ). We even borrow some code from Mezzano and are actively collaborating with its author.
    comment by heisig · 2020-07-04 · in Closos: Specification of a Lisp operating system (2013) [pdf]
  33. …be fairly easy to make SBCL run as a unikernel. There is also Mezzano [1], it is a Lisp OS. [1] https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
    comment by rjsw · 2020-07-04 · in Closos: Specification of a Lisp operating system (2013) [pdf]
  34. There is Mezzano, a Common Lisp operating system. Currently designed to be run within Virtualbox. https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
    comment by tlavoie · 2020-06-03 · in Snakeware – Linux distro with Python userspace inspired by Commodore 64
  35. https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano Mezzano is an operating system written in Common Lisp.
    comment by lispm · 2020-03-17 · in Ask HN: Resources for Systems Programming in Lisp
  36. …of operating system projects that have caught my eye: [1] MezzanoOS, an OS written in Common Lisp ( https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano ) [2] SerenityOS, a Unix-like OS ( https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/ ). The primary author has a…
    comment by eadan · 2020-01-26 · in Learn to write a simple OS kernel with keyboard/screen support (2014)
  37. …Beg to differ. Lisp machines were huge, back in the day, and there are still hobbyist projects like https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
    comment by earenndil · 2019-10-30 · in Thank You, Guido
  38. …also have manual memory management. People even write operating systems in Lisp sometimes: https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
    comment by lispm · 2019-08-05 · in Hy
  39. …Lisp has a garbage collector, and yet you can use it for operating system development: https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano Go has a garbage collector, and yet you can use it for operating system development: http://lsub.org/ls/clive.html
    comment by yellowapple · 2019-07-19 · in We Need a Safer Systems Programming Language
  40. You might like https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano , Common Lisp operating system.
    comment by logicchains · 2019-07-02 · in Microsoft developer reveals Linux is now more used on Azure than Windows Server
  41. …implemented, primarily because it is a hobby project. Graphics are rendered on the CPU for example. https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano/blob/master/gui/blit-x86-...
    comment by PuercoPop · 2019-06-18 · in Mezzano – An operating system written in Common Lisp
  42. Looked through source code [1]. It lacks readability and is worse than Rust. [1] https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano/blob/master/gui/desktop.l...
    comment by codedokode · 2019-06-18 · in Mezzano – An operating system written in Common Lisp
  43. from https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano/releases : "Running on real hardware: The hybrid image can be burned to a CD or dd'd onto a USB drive, and booted directly. It requires a 64-bit x86 machine, 2GB of RAM, and a PS/2 keyboard and…
    comment by ska80 · 2019-06-18 · in Mezzano – An operating system written in Common Lisp
  44. https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
    comment by aidenn0 · 2019-05-23 · in SerenityOS – a graphical Unix-like OS for x86, with 90s aesthetics
  45. Should mention that Mezzano OS satisfies most of these design points and already runs. https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
    comment by varjag · 2019-04-26 · in Lisp Operating System (2015)
  46. Mezzano [1] is written in Common Lisp and can be run on Virtualbox and QEMU. [1] https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
    comment by miguelsm · 2019-02-10 · in LispOS: Specification of a Lisp operating system (2013) [pdf]
  47. …windows, applications ... and everything else a typical OS provides. For a recent attempt see: https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
    comment by lispm · 2018-11-24 · in Lisp Machine Inc. K-machine (2001)
  48. …unique to just lisps either, you see similar features in Smalltalk environments like Pharo[1]. [0]: https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano [1]: https://pharo.org/
    comment by orangeshark · 2018-08-23 · in Evaluating Vax Lisp 3.1
  49. You could try Mezzano [1]. [1] https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano/releases/tag/demo4
    comment by rjsw · 2018-08-08 · in The Scheme Machine (1994) [pdf]
  50. …user interface exist(ed) several: MIT Lisp Machine OS (and derived), Interlisp-D, ... Mezzano ( https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano ). Since Elisp was an uncomplete and smaller Lisp - and not a systems programming dialect like Lisp Machine…
    comment by lispm · 2018-07-21 · in Emacs and TLS