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====== Altair 8800 Lisp ======
Lisp is great, and so is the [[:histcomp:Altair 8800]]. Why not combine pleasures?

===== Purpose =====
Systems programming is a fascinating exercise, but doing so on modern computers is difficult. Early personal computers such as the [[:histcomp:Apple II]] or [[:histcomp:Altair 8800]] are much more accessible targets. Combining this with our recent interest in Lisp, we have decided to implement a dialect of Lisp on an Altair. We hope to use this project to gain a greater understanding and appreciation of each. 

===== Existing work =====
==== Turtles Lisp (a2lisp) ====

===== Design =====
For our implementation, we will be using the Altair configuration most readily available to us: the [[:histcomp:Altair-Duino]]. Ours has one SIO, two 2SIOs, an ACR, and a full 64K RAM with no ROMs mapped. 

===== Resources =====
  * [[gh>ghosthamlet/awesome-lisp-machine]]
  * [[gh>hausdorff/turtles]]: a Lisp implementation for the [[:histcomp:Apple II]]
  * [[https://dmitryfrank.com/articles/lisp_on_mcu|Let's Run Lisp on a Microcontroller]], Dmitry Frank'
  * [[https://github.com/technoblogy/tiny-lisp-computer/tree/master|Tiny Lisp Computer]]
  * [[http://www.ulisp.com/|uLisp]]