asciilifeform: Kalman was hired after that by Symbolics Technology, Inc., who had acquired the assets of Symbolics from the bankruptcy court, to work on further productizing the emulator for the Alpha. This was used by John Mallery at MIT to run his document distribution system for the White House during the Clinton presidency. When the owners of that venture decided that a financial company had no business owning a computer company, a private ind
asciilifeform: 'Kalman Reti worked for Symbolics from 1982 through 1992, mostly on VLSI tools for Ivory but also writing low-level device support (e.g. a LMFS recovery utility, R/W optical drive support, LZW compressor, etc.) The last few years of that were spent doing customer consulting. After being laid off when Symbolics went into chapter 11, Kalman worked for Apple in Cambridge, first on MCL and later, after MCL was sold to Digitool, on Dylan.
asciilifeform: iirc he is the orig author of the ersatz ivory emulator
asciilifeform: ( reti is the other half of dks-and-reti skeleton crew )
asciilifeform: maybe he knew that the money were running out, lol
asciilifeform: by all indications, they were pretty effective -- but, far more importantly -- extremely compact.
asciilifeform: just as ceaucescu was content to 'steal' vlsi from the decaying west, i am perfectly content to steal the algos from bolix.
asciilifeform: apeloyee: the other thing to consider, is that the preserved bolix material has ~unspeakably~ rich ( and quite high snr ) collection of artifacts, perhaps 1000 asciilifeform-years of work. take the ns vlsi compiler alone. i have the binaries, but not the src. and ~someone~ will have to make a sane (i.e. fully lispified and zero-externals) vlsitron.☟︎☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: 'emperor' drinks same flavoured water as the prole, today.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: if 'coke' dies, 'pepsi' will reign, the basic idea remains
asciilifeform: apeloyee: but on the other hand any attempt to build a sane arch, without fully grasping the bolix stack, from ic to the compiler, is lunacy.☟︎
asciilifeform: apeloyee: actually i do not particularly like it
asciilifeform: of course reality caught up with poor shoemaker's imagination, and today's 'emperors' indeed have not only front porches but armchair with tv with foxnoose, and refrigerator full of 'bud'
asciilifeform: ( the noun is lost, but придворный remains 'courtier' )
asciilifeform: waitasec is this false cognate with the ru
asciilifeform: sorta half of what makes'im interesting imho
asciilifeform: hey americans to this day have ~0 problem 'respecting', e.g., washington, despite slave fleet ( and on top of it, near-total unletteredness )
asciilifeform: which could mean, for instance, dispensing with entire concept of interned string
asciilifeform: i would like to see the minimal practical nonlisp loc, in such an animal
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-14#1737923 << i gotta add to this before it runs away : when making ~scriptlang~ ( rather than an actual lispm ) very different set of design tradeoffs might be acceptable, it they reduce complexity and in particular nonlisp LOC☝︎
asciilifeform: hey, d00d pumped his listening-before-talking muscle for so long that it's schwartzneger-sized
asciilifeform: nah, in the sense where neither i nor anybody else can distinguish hash(fg output) from hash(we fuck pigs) , without knowing the answer ahead of time
asciilifeform: ( aside from knowing the riddle key )
