Our aim is to restore Medley Interlisp to usability on modern systems, sufficient to allow someone to develop some code and experience what it was like. You could think of this as a kind of “vintage software” project, to try to capture the sense of fluidity in the development cycle.
We also hope to provide a platform for demonstration of early systems in Interlisp, including those in Artificial Intelligence, hypertext (Notecards), Desktop management (Rooms), Object-oriented programming (LOOPS), as well as Interlisp itself.
Testing, debugging, adapting to modern systems, OS, hardware. Identified issues are documented in the Interlisp/medley repository.
We’re also trying to “modernize” some things; for example, we’ve adding Unicode support for IO (Interlisp-D was built before Unicode, and supports an older Xerox encoding). As with most open source projects, what we’re able to accomplish depends on volunteers.
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