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2003/10/31

Turn Open Genera into an Open Source project!

On the last day of the ILC03 I participated in a very interesting discussion. A small group of conference attendees tried to persuade Howard Shrobe to make Open Genera available as open source.

At least three people argued, that it shouldn't be to difficult to write an emulator similar to the one that was done for the DEC Alpha systems. The vision of having Open Genera running on a AMD Opteron platform excited all participants. Is it just a dream? I don't think so. (all images copyright Ralph Moeller)

Ex Symbolics user for 5+ years - posted by Tim Chippington Derrick - 2004/9/16 10:10:54
Would love to see an open version of Genera. It is *still* far ahead of just about any other siftware environment. The likes of Eclipse for Java are starting to see some of the things we took for granted 15 years ago! Open it up and show the world how it could be done. I can't believe that there is much commercial value left in Genera, and even that is going to fade as the rest of the world gradually re-invents what Genera did. Go for broke and open it up.