#genera

2025-06-30

A late 1990s Symbolics brochure on 25 reasons to buy Genera. The very first reason hints at how different the compuring world was at the time: all objects can be shared among all processes.

symbolics-dks.com/Genera-why-1

#symbolics #genera #lisp #retrocomputing

2025-04-08
Xiao Mao & Yours Truly, Geneva, Switzerland. July 2018, iPhone 6s.

Birthday shot (courtesy of @alarmistsqrl)

#Genera #Switzerland #terrace #cat #blackcat #yourstruly
A black cat and yours truly, the latter wearing a “Building Better Worlds” Weyland-Yutani tee, standing on a terrace with a view over Geneva and the mountains.
2025-02-07

@a_cubed @cstross

Back in the 1980s, when my then-office-mate was developing the Japanese product for the Symbolics lisp machine, we had an electronic version of this.

It was a big pad, about 50cm x 50cm, with a stylus to pick out individual characters. This was for kanji; the hiragana and katakana were handled separately.

To watch him use it was amazing... and slow.

#lispm
#lispmachine
#genera
#symbolics

SkyLine Newsskylinenews
2025-01-22

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#117935922

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Giuseppe MichieliGMIK69@mstdn.science
2024-11-19

#Recombination across distant #coronavirid #species and #genera is a rare #event with distinct #genomic features

Source: Journal of Virology, ABSTRACTSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2; family Coronaviridae, genus Betacoronavirus, subgenus Sarbecovirus) has caused millions of deaths, prompting a need for better understanding of coronavirid emergence and spillover to humans. As an evaluation of how some features of SARS-CoV-2, unique among…

etidioh.wordpress.com/2024/11/

Convoca-la BCNAgenda@bcn.convoca.la
2024-11-14

Homenaje a Mónica Reina del Raval

Plaça Salvador Seguí, Raval, Barcelona, divendres, 15 de novembre, a les 19:00 CET

bcn.convoca.la/event/homenaje-

Homenatge a Mónica del Raval
2024-10-31

Il Cantiere, via Gustavo Modena 92 – Roma, oggi, giovedì 31 ottobre, h. 21:30.

Genera

Luca Venitucci – pianoforte, melodica, dispositivi elettronici
Dario Miranda – contrabbasso
Ermanno Baron – batteria

Genera si muove tra composizione estemporanea e forme fluide, aperte e flessibili che organizzano il flusso libero dell’improvvisazione senza imbrigliarlo in strutture eccessivamente rigide e vincolanti.

La formazione strumentale si richiama inequivocabilmente a quella del piano trio di matrice jazzistica, e tuttavia tale riferimento viene ampliato e condotto verso territori imprevedibili grazie all’uso di tecniche estese, dispositivi elettronici e sonorità inusuali come quelle della melodica trattata con effetti.

La musica di Genera è dunque il frutto del combinarsi di intenzioni diverse e complementari: esplosioni free e incalzanti grooves si intersecano con momenti maggiormente introspettivi e cameristici, perlustrazioni sonore acustiche ed elettroacustiche si connettono con parti più dilatate e quasi ambient.

Active Observation, primo album di Genera, è uscito a ottobre 2023 per Aut Records ottenendo riscontri critici fortemente positivi.

inizio concerto ore 21:30
ingresso a sottoscrizione

*

evento fb: https://www.facebook.com/share/uETxC5kbQRmBchF9/

https://slowforward.net/2024/10/31/oggi-31-ottobre-a-roma-concerto-del-gruppo-genera-il-cantiere/

#ActiveObservation #AutRecords #concerto #DarioMiranda #ErmannoBaron #Genera #IlCantiere #improvisation #improvvisazione #LucaVenitucci #music #musicA_

2024-10-23

Il Cantiere, via Gustavo Modena 92 – Roma, giovedì 31 ottobre, h. 21:30.

Genera

Luca Venitucci – pianoforte, melodica, dispositivi elettronici
Dario Miranda – contrabbasso
Ermanno Baron – batteria

Genera si muove tra composizione estemporanea e forme fluide, aperte e flessibili che organizzano il flusso libero dell’improvvisazione senza imbrigliarlo in strutture eccessivamente rigide e vincolanti.

La formazione strumentale si richiama inequivocabilmente a quella del piano trio di matrice jazzistica, e tuttavia tale riferimento viene ampliato e condotto verso territori imprevedibili grazie all’uso di tecniche estese, dispositivi elettronici e sonorità inusuali come quelle della melodica trattata con effetti.

La musica di Genera è dunque il frutto del combinarsi di intenzioni diverse e complementari: esplosioni free e incalzanti grooves si intersecano con momenti maggiormente introspettivi e cameristici, perlustrazioni sonore acustiche ed elettroacustiche si connettono con parti più dilatate e quasi ambient.

Active Observation, primo album di Genera, è uscito a ottobre 2023 per Aut Records ottenendo riscontri critici fortemente positivi.

inizio concerto ore 21:30
ingresso a sottoscrizione

*

evento fb: https://www.facebook.com/share/uETxC5kbQRmBchF9/

https://slowforward.net/2024/10/24/31-ottobre-roma-concerto-del-gruppo-genera-il-cantiere/

#ActiveObservation #AutRecords #concerto #DarioMiranda #ErmannoBaron #Genera #IlCantiere #improvisation #improvvisazione #LucaVenitucci #music #musicA_

J of Systematics and EvolutionJSE@mstdn.science
2024-10-15

Think you know #Didymocarpus? Think again!
Liu et al. describe their #phylogenetic reconstruction of Didymocarpus and related genera in the Gesneriaceae with the establishment of two new #genera.
doi.org/10.1111/jse.13124
@WileyEcolEvol
#evolution #PlantSci #taxonomy #botany

Panel of images showing floral morphological characters studied in the phylogenetic reconstruction of Didymocarpus by Liu et al.
2024-09-26

@ldbeth Have you tried to get your hands on the #Symbolics C source code? It compiled C to #Lisp and you might be able to re-use at least some of the front end code.

But it's probably locked in a vault somewhere with the rest of the #Genera source code. Not sure.

2024-08-31

@hayley @amoroso #symbolics #genera #lisp #commonlisp Though that was Dynamic Windows. CLIM looked like this:

2024-08-31

@amoroso #symbolics #genera naturally also has graph drawing features. Attached screenshot shows a simple example. In the Listener (-> #lisp #repl) I define a new command Show Flavor Tree. It displays the inherited Flavors. Flavors are early classes on the #lispmachine. The Listener is also a drawing plane. The command takes the name of a flavor class, then calls the graph formatter with arguments. PRESENT-FLAVOR prints the flavor and makes it mouse sensitive.

2024-08-29

#lisp #commonlisp #lispmachine #genera

Then checking the list of compiler warnings, using the Zmacs command „Edit Compiler Warnings“.

2024-08-29

#lisp #commonlisp #lispmachine #genera

Compiling the ALEXANDRIA library on a Lisp Machine, actually using ASDF.

2024-08-25

@amoroso #lisp #commonlisp #lispmachine #symbolics #genera
2) I've compiled the LOOP alternative ITERATE (written by Jonathan Amsterdam) on the VLM. It actually works. ITERATE has even more features than LOOP, but uses a more Lisp-like syntax.

In the right X11 window there is a Zmacs and a Lisp Listener. The left X11 window is from the same VLM, but displays the documentation browser in its own X11 window. The documentation content comes from another VLM.

2024-08-25

@amoroso
#lisp #commonlisp #lispmachine #symbolics #genera
1) Thanks, I just updated my Genera to the latest release 9.0.6. The installation is slightly unusual. It's a virtual lisp machine (VLM), here running on a Mac with an M1 Pro cpu. UI is via X11, using the XQuartz application. The VLM talks to another VLM on the network, which provides various server functionality. But it also has its own file system, which is actually a Lisp Machine File System (LMFS). -> 2)

2024-07-19

@amoroso #genera #lispmachine #lisp #commonlisp

Same for Symbolics Genera:

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