Gary Palter

Software Consultant -- Lisp, Swift
Maintainer of Symbolics Genera and the Virtual Lisp Machine (VLM)

[Gary Palter @gmpalter]

Symbolics Technologies LLC owns the IP of the former Symbolics. We are in the process of making Genera and the VLM available gratis for non-commercial use. It’s taking longer than I’d like but it’s getting closer. Can’t give a timeframe yet.

(I invented the Portable Genera name and now wish I hadn’t. It’s just Genera.)

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Clock has resumed counting down

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

The Starship team is go for prop load

[Gary Palter @gmpalter]

@PuppiesIover My neighbor’s

[Gary Palter @gmpalter]

Ok @turbotax and @TeamTurboTax, it’s been four years now and TurboTax 2024 isn’t Apple silicon native! What the hell?

[Gary Palter @gmpalter]

I’ve built a Forth 2012 implementation in Common Lisp for a client. Today, I was give permission to make it public. MIT license, CCL and SBCL, includes an FFI as well. https://t.co/iP09O6w98R

[iJustine @ijustine]

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[Gary Palter @gmpalter]

@mikeroySoft
Virtualization in Sequoia supports nested virtualization on M3 and later. (Unfortunately, no mention of same for the Hypervisor framework.)

https://t.co/2ssQIcT5oB

[Gary Palter @gmpalter]

@stephenrobles My truck just jumped from my neighborhood across the Atlantic to Africa?!

[Gary Palter @gmpalter]

Hey @mikeroySoft, I can’t find the Fusion and Workstation communities in the new Broadcomm setup.

[Gary Palter @gmpalter]

@DC_Draino Already happened. https://t.co/z8b3kQUgvi

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Watch Starship’s second integrated flight test https://t.co/cahoRQ72lm

[Gary Palter @gmpalter]

It’s 2023 and @turbotax for Mac is still Intel only??!!??

[Gary Palter @gmpalter]

@mikeroySoft @its_hemantk You can use the UTM app in the Mac App Store to virtualize macOS on Apple silicon. It uses the high-level Virtualization framework and works reasonably well. (I use it to run beta macOS VMs. It also supports Apple’s support for Rosetta in Linux VMs.)

[Gary Palter @gmpalter]

@ijustine Take that back. Only config still offering Sep. 22nd delivery is Blue 512GB.

[Gary Palter @gmpalter]

@ijustine Sorry. Same thing happened to me. Never had this much trouble before. Very in-demand config. Can’t get in-store pickup anymore either. But, higher storage or other colors, no problem.

[Gary Palter @gmpalter]

@ijustine Seeing this video caused me to switch to the Natural Titanium finish. (I was planning on getting the Blue Titanium.)

[Gary Palter @gmpalter]

@tichaesque Shouldn’t the second Wi-Fi network be open for this joke to work? (No lock)

[Gary Palter @gmpalter]

@florinpop17 1968, Fortran and IBM 1130 assembler. Next year modified the 1130’s OS to track time to bill usage at MIT Sloan School. (1130 had no clocks. How left as exercise to the reader.)

[Gary Palter @gmpalter]

@larsbrinkhoff @bitsavers Actually it is SPCWAR 163 from November 1976. I took the date from change comments in the file but that wasn’t the most recent entry. I also have NEWWAR 164. (Can’t remember why I started that one back then.)