[Coco] vim for coco3 os9 is now in Genes-os9-stf

[Aaron]

On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 11:49 AM, J Arcane <jarcane at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah, Xlisp is the only one I know of that works anyway. I've never tried
> it, because I couldn't begin to puzzle out the steps needed to get at it;
> not really an OS-9 guy myself, in those days I mostly knew it as 'the thing
> I have to boot to run Biosphere'.  If you get a working emulator image
> running though, I'd love to play with it.
>
>
Based on an image I have at <
http://manny.invigorated.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/first-func.png>, I
used to have it working but I've lost the image I had it on.  I'm getting
pretty aggravated this morning because I thought I had a working virtual
HDD with OS-9 or NitrOS-9 on it.  But it doesn't look like it.  I'm going
to have to start from scratch.

I've found the old thread that Willard and I had concerning Xlisp here: <
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco/54571/focus=54649>

-M.


> Tail recursion is tricky even on modern hardware. Clojure for instance
> can't handle it at all, though most CL and Scheme implementations do it
> well. I can't imagine trying to get a lot of recursion running smoothly
> would be easy in only 512Kb. XD
>
> On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Aaron <manney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 9:52 AM, J Arcane <jarcane at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Modern Emacs is enormous, but the oldest *Macs editors ran on pretty
> > > ancient machines and made for very small editors. There's no way you
> > could
> > > port Emacs official, but a *macs-like screen editor with the same
> screen
> > > commands and such could probably be done. There's even precedent for a
> > Lisp
> > > variant running on OS-9.
> > >
> > > Whether it would perform well at all, I can't remotely say.
> > >
> > >
> > You're talking about Xlisp?  I've had it working through an emulator a
> few
> > years ago.  I should try and get it working again...  I wasn't too
> > impressed at the time, though.  Recursion was, well, limited.  ;)
> >
> > There is something similar to Emacs around for OS-9 (without the lisp,)
> but
> > I couldn't ever get it working correctly without it crashing about a
> > million times a minute.  I was considering, though not even remotely
> > seriously, trying to find an ancient version of Emacs and porting it.
>