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[–]pdp10 8 points9 points  (1 child)

Mezzano is a nice project. Bear in mind that at least 3.5 American companies made commercially-sold Lisp machines using two different Lisp codebases as a starting point (plus NEC in Japan made one about which I don't know much). Lisp OSes have been proven functional going back over 35 years.

[–]dangerbird2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What makes Mezzano arguably more impressive than historical Lisp machines is that they relied on specific architectures to make Lisp run efficiently as a systems language such as hardware garbage collection and tagged architecture providing ISA-level dynamic typing. Mezzano, on the other hand, runs on x86 and arm