Re: Pocket Lisp Machine

GP lisper wrote:
I have an application that needs lisp and some stealth[1]. Recently
I've been looking at TI calculators, since they have some interesting
specs, in this case a 68000 processor, the same as in early Macs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-89_series

Since I'm willing to trash all the calculator side in favor of getting
it back with lisp later, it may be possible to drop in a old pre-clos
small 68000 lisp with the on-board flash and RAM. I'd just need a
keyboard remapper and a video module from the original code.

The purpose is to have handy access to a small database of some 3000
rows by 15 columns, including various simple analysis programs. The
MySQL version of the database will probably end up at less than 400k.
I can think of a few tricks that will probably keep the database under
100k in size. A development enviroment is not necessary on board the
calculator, some host computer can do all the grunt work.

I don't have any knowledge of old mac lisps, so I'm looking for
pointers to those programs and general feasibility comments or
alternative suggestions!

Coral Lisp was the ancestor of MCL/OpenMCL, and used to fit in a couple of megabytes. But it had pretty strong integration with the mac. You might want something like Cambridge Lisp (ran on the amiga as a text-only app) instead. Or any of the lisps of that era that ran on more-or-less stock 16-bit hardware. It sounds as if you probably have the resources to cross-compile if it turns out to be useful.
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