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But what is it? The README is just a bunch of screenshots and disjointed comments about what features it has listed in no particular order. It would be great if there was some summary from a birds eye view of what the project actually is.



Caveat: I'm not a lisp-person, however:

It looks like a modern interpretation of a Lisp machine -- a "real" Lisp, where the entire environment is a Lisp, and you can network and do GUI stuff and OS stuff in Lisp, running either in a hosted environment or maybe on bare metal eventually.


I think the "what" was intended to be covered by the initial flurry of contents, "MIMD, multi CPU, multi threaded, multi core, multi user Parallel OS".


Looks like OS with Lisp all the way down (or up.. All the apps on top)


Give it a try! The page includes snapshot.zip and a number of scripts to start you off. See also

https://github.com/vygr/ChrysaLisp/blob/master/docs/INTRO.md




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