Re: [racket-users] Racket machine image

2016-02-24 Thread Robby Findler
http://everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series/ Their title kind of casts a light on the way we judge research, eh? Robby On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 1:15 PM, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > > Yeap. > > And fwiw, I am perfectly aware that Edison did not invent the light bulb or, > more generally, tha

Re: [racket-users] Racket machine image

2016-02-24 Thread Matthias Felleisen
Yeap. And fwiw, I am perfectly aware that Edison did not invent the light bulb or, more generally, that re-invention (separated by decades and longer) is a cross-disciplinary phenomenon. On Feb 24, 2016, at 2:10 PM, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > The possibility of reinvention and parallel invent

Re: [racket-users] Racket machine image

2016-02-24 Thread Neil Van Dyke
The possibility of reinvention and parallel invention... is of course still better than the opposite extreme. :) Neil V. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an

Re: [racket-users] Racket machine image

2016-02-24 Thread Matthias Felleisen
I exaggerated a little bit as far as the Halting Problem is concerned. On Feb 24, 2016, at 12:33 PM, Stephen De Gabrielle wrote: > Thank you, > I thought you might be exaggerating until I saw the Fox Project web page > http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~fox/ > > Sadly I can't find fluxkit. It sometimes

Re: [racket-users] Racket machine image

2016-02-24 Thread Jay McCarthy
It's not called fluxkit. It's OSkit but the Flux research group: https://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/oskit/ It should still be in the configure script for Racket. Jay On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Stephen De Gabrielle wrote: > Thank you, > I thought you might be exaggerating until I saw the Fox P

Re: [racket-users] Racket machine image

2016-02-24 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Thank you, I thought you might be exaggerating until I saw the Fox Project web page http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~fox/ Sadly I can't find fluxkit. It sometimes seems like history is written by Google and Wikipedia. Doing a literature review is expensive and time consuming. > Computer science is the disc

Re: [racket-users] Racket machine image

2016-02-24 Thread Matthias Felleisen
In the late 90s, all of us had a FluxKit image on our laptops that would boot PLT Scheme on the raw machine. Matthew, with help from the Flux people, put it together in a relatively short time. I am sure more could have done with that, but we went in different directions. At Strange Loop I s

[racket-users] Racket machine image

2016-02-24 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Hi, Has anyone ever done a racket machine image like: • Mirage https://mirage.io • LING/Erlang on Xen http://erlangonxen.org • Rumprum https://github.com/rumpkernel/rumprun I heard a podcast and recently saw an old presentation [1] that was interesting. I'm interested, but never had the motivation