Skip to site navigation (Press enter) Announce: PicoLisp in Hardware (PilMCU) Alexander Burger Fri, 19 Sep 2014 04:48:35 -0700 X-Body-of-Message Hello List, we are proud to announce PilMCU, the Lisp Machine on a Chip! :) We, that is George Orais (who persuaded me into the project) and me. Georg built the actual machine in Verilog, and I did the changes and extensions to PicoLisp. PilMCU is an implementation of 64-bit PicoLisp directly in hardware. A truly minimalistic system. PicoLisp is both the machine language and the operating system: * Memory management is trivial, just the Lisp heap and the stack * The built-in database is extended to hold a "file system" * One SSD per database file for mass storage * "Processes" run as tasks and coroutines * Events (timing and interrupts) via a 'wait' instruction * Complex I/O protocols are delegated to peri...