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An operating system written in Common Lisp

78 mentions on Hacker News by 53 people: 15 stories, 63 comments · first 2015-01-27 · latest 2025-08-24

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  1. https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
    comment by aidenn0 · 2019-05-23 · in SerenityOS – a graphical Unix-like OS for x86, with 90s aesthetics
  2. 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)
  3. 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]
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    Mezzano: an operating system written in Common Lisp
    story by HerrMonnezza · 2019-01-14 · 0 comments
  5. …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)
  6. …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
  7. 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]
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    Common Lisp OS Mezzano – Demo 4
    story by phoe-krk · 2018-07-28 · 1 comment
  9. …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
  10. Mezzano: https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
    comment by eschaton · 2018-05-21 · in Symbolics Lisp Machine Museum
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    Mezzano: OS Written in Common Lisp
    story by equalunique · 2018-02-01 · 0 comments
  12. Not exactly a Lisp OS - asm and C beneath. Compare to https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
    comment by avodonosov · 2017-10-13 · in ChrysaLisp – A 64-bit Lisp OS with GUI
  13. A Common Lisp one: https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
    comment by avodonosov · 2017-10-13 · in ChrysaLisp – A 64-bit Lisp OS with GUI
  14. …normally provide: memory management, graphics, device management and HAL, keyboard/mouse input. See https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano for something that can run on bare metal.
    comment by phoe-krk · 2017-10-13 · in ChrysaLisp – A 64-bit Lisp OS with GUI
  15. Mezzano is a open source Lisp OS: https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
    comment by drdre2001 · 2017-08-20 · in McCLIM: A GUI Toolkit for Common Lisp
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    Mezzano – Common Lisp OS: Demo 3 released
    story by phoe-krk · 2017-04-09 · 22 comments
  17. For an example of operating system kernel completely written in Lisp, see https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
    comment by sanxiyn · 2017-03-27 · in Curl is C
  18. …3. http://www.secretgeek.net/lisp_truth 4. http://www.buildyourownlisp.com/ 5. OS Written is Lisp: https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano 6. For Clojure: https://changelog.com/posts/rich-hickeys-greatest-hits 7.…
    comment by vs4vijay · 2017-01-02 · in Ask HN: Learning Lisp?
  19. https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
    comment by lispm · 2016-12-05 · in Practical Common Lisp (2005)
  20. It's certainly a tricky endeavor, but not impossible: - http://www.fltk.org/index.php - https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano Then again most gui libraries end up including networking, file handling, etc...
    comment by elcritch · 2016-09-15 · in Why I’m dropping Rust
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    Mezzano – An operating system written in Common Lisp
    story by arm · 2016-08-25 · 63 comments
  22. Mezzano? https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
    comment by necklace · 2016-08-24 · in Dinosaur and Lisp
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    Mezzano, an operating system written in Common Lisp
    story by mark_l_watson · 2016-08-22 · 0 comments
  24. …the other one being mocl: https://wukix.com/mocl ). How about crazy experimental operating systems? https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano If you want to write native(non-swing) guis LispWorks has that covered, and the open source gtk/qt…
    comment by pavelludiq · 2015-05-06 · in Lispworks 7.0 with Mobile (iOS, Android) Runtime
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    Isearch patch for the Mezzano text editor
    story by typedweb · 2015-03-05 · 0 comments
  26. …that made this possible and the original authors still work on it now. I'm really glad about this: https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano https://github.com/robert-strandh/McCLIM
    comment by crististm · 2015-02-13 · in Lisp as the Maxwell Equations of Software (2012)
  27. It's up on github (name changed to Mezzano because of the conflict with the CMS project): https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano IRC log discussing building: http://log.irc.tymoon.eu/freenode/lisp?from=2015-01-27T19%3A...
    comment by mgsouth · 2015-01-27 · in Mezzanine: A Common Lisp-based 64-bit OS for VirtualBox
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    Mezzano, an operating system written in Common Lisp
    story by PuercoPop · 2015-01-27 · 15 comments