Check it out, Super Dimension Fortress, the free shell/hosting/email organization, is running (among other things) Open Genera:
Trying 192.94.73.20... Connected to ol.freeshell.org. Escape character is 'off'. sdf.lonestar.org if new login 'new' .. login: new tput: tgetent failure: No such file or directory Welcome to the SDF Public Access UNIX System - Est. 1987 You are the 678th guest today, logged in on 21-Apr-04 21:54:13. Type 'mkacct' to create a UNIX shell account. Type 'teach' for UNIX class information. Type 'help' for additional commands. In europe? Try 'sdf-eu.org' FEP Command: help +--------------------------------------------------------------+ |COMMAND | DESCRIPTION | +--------------------------------------------------------------+ |what | what is the SDF public access UNIX? | |mkacct | create your own UNIX shell account | |dialup | US & Canada SDF dialup access | |teach | for teachers and UNIX class instructors | |traceroute {host} | map a route to a specified host | |ruptime | display system status | |finger {user} | check if a login is available | |software | ported and installed software packages | |logout | disconnect from sdf.lonestar.org | +--------------------------------------------------------------+
Yep. It's a simulated Lisp machine. [via Henry Lenzi.]
Posted by jjwiseman at April 21, 2004 03:00 PMI don't understand - how does this prove that you have access to open genera ? And yes I know that FEP is the name of the Symbolics 'front end processor' - but such an acronym could mean anything, no ? In other words, show us some Lisp interaction !
Posted by: Sven Van Caekenberghe on April 22, 2004 10:59 AMActually I suspect (I have an SDF account) that OpenGenera is only used behind-the-scenes, at least for now, or only available to Privileged users.
Posted by: Bruce Nagel on April 22, 2004 05:27 PMif you have a look at their homepage, it says at the bottom:
SDF uses DEC (hp) Alphas running NetBSD, TOPS-20 and Symbolics GENERA
however unlike TOPS-20 it isn't mentioned on their access page, only that you can get lisp if you pay $36 once.
btw I got this error while previewing:
MT::App::Comments=HASH(0x8060458) Use of uninitialized value in sprintf at lib/MT/Template/Context.pm line 1187.
Posted by: tekai on April 23, 2004 12:00 AMThanks, tekai, I upgraded MT-Blacklist, which some people at least think is the cause of that error.