[PRL] Re: Singularity project at MS

Dave Herman dherman at ccs.neu.edu
Fri Dec 9 14:16:09 EST 2005


>>>> Is Singularity a Lisp Machine in a C#, OO guise?
>>>
>>> Um... you forgot the "only runs on Windows" part, unless I miss my
>>> guess.
>>
>> Huh?  No, Singularity only runs on Singularity.  It's an OS.
> 
> Yikes, egg on my face, eh?  Okay, would you settle for "probably  won't 
> run, sandboxed or otherwise, on my PowerPC-based mac." ?

Regardless, the question seems like a stretch -- I wouldn't imagine the 
Lisp Machine had a whole lot of static analysis and safety guarantees...?

Dave



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