Paolo Amoroso

This is Medley Interlisp running the Lafite email program. The mailbox window at the bottom left has a single entry, a test message I sent myself shown in the large window to the right.

What's neat is Lafite delivered to and retrieved the message from a mail server by exchanging packets over the Xerox XNS local network, here emulated with the server on my Linux box via Dodo Services. See the network logs in the black Prompt Window at the top left.

Nick Briggs @nhbriggs@mastodon.social is reviving the original XNS network stack of Interlisp, which can now run Lafite and other network applications.

https://github.com/devhawala/dodo/tree/master

#interlisp #xns #lisp

The book A Programmer's Guide to COMMON LISP by Deborah Tatar (Digital Press, 1987), along with the errata, is now online with permission from the author.

https://archive.org/details/a-programmers-guide-to-common-lisp

My review of the book:

https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/reading-a-programmers-guide-to-common-lisp

#CommonLisp #lisp #books #retrocomputing

The complete, text friendly archive of Dr. Dobb's Journal from 1988 to 2009: article text, illustrations, source code, special issues, and more. The illustrations are fax-quality scans but better than nothing.

https://jacobfilipp.com/DrDobbs

#magazine #retrocomputing #computing

The history of lab notebooks in science, from the Renaissance humanist practices of copying excerpts from texts to digital systems.

https://www.asimov.press/p/lab-notebooks

#science #ScienceHistory

An introduction to WAITS, a lesser known DEC operating system for the PDP-6 and PDP-10.

https://timereshared.com/stanford-waits

#dec #os #retrocomputing

Matthias Ott on human curation.

We are drowning in content. What becomes valuable is someone you trust, saying: This is worth your time. Here’s why.

That’s curation. And it’s not new.

https://newsletter.ownyourweb.site/archive/own-your-web-issue-18-curators

#curation #curator

Why Joe prefers a Lisp dialect over Haskell as his default programming language.

Scheme (and Lisp in general) might lack Haskell’s innovations and purity, favoring a minimalistic flexibility instead, but it mixes practicality with functional beauty in a way that makes it a functional language for human beings.

https://jointhefreeworld.org/blog/articles/lisps/why-i-still-reach-for-scheme-instead-of-haskell/index.html

#lisp #scheme #haskell

I didn't know the history of X.400, an email transfer protocol with an impenetrable specification that could have delivered advanced features much earlier.

https://buttondown.com/blog/x400-vs-smtp-email

#email #internet #retrocomputing

The retrocomputing website Typewritten Software is a "Retrotechnology Research Laboratory" with lots of interesting material.

http://www.typewritten.org

Be sure to take a look at the screenshot gallery:

http://www.typewritten.org/Media

#retrocomputing

Lee Tusman wrote a vi clone, in BASIC.

https://leetusman.com/nosebook/yvi

#vi #editor #basic

The headline may seem controversial or clickbaity but the post makes some good points on the psychological and social benefits of office work.

https://mrmarket.lol/remote-work-is-bad-for-you

#RemoteWork

A reminder of the search engine operators, filters, and tips for searching the web.

https://joshblais.com/blog/using-search-engines-properly

#SearchEngine #web