https://github.com/Sodel-the-Vociferous/baremetal-lisp

One of my earliest projects: a toy lisp interpreter that runs on bare hardware
https://github.com/Sodel-the-Vociferous/baremetal-lisp

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One of my earliest projects: a toy lisp interpreter that runs on bare hardware

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/Sodel-the-Vociferous/baremetal-lisp
• Owner: Sodel-the-Vociferous
• License: gpl-2.0
• Created: 2013-07-27T05:13:37.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2013-08-09T06:27:27.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-24T16:41:21.368Z (9 months ago)
• Language: C
• Homepage:
• Size: 1.56 MB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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## My "Bare-Metal" Lisp Interpreter ##

*DISCLAIMER*: This was one of my earliest projects. The code is a

tangly mess, and it's only purpose is as a historical curiosity.

While I was working on it, I generously called this project a Lisp

operating system. The goal was to make it semi-usable, but other

concerns stole my attention away. As it is, it's a very incomplete and

deeply flawed toy lisp interpreter that runs on bare hardware. While

programming the interpreter, I worked off of the Common Lisp

hyper-spec. (That's right: I was gunning for a fully ANSI-compliant

Common Lisp interpreter.)

Compared to the other stuff I've been digging up lately, this is a

comparatively recent project. I stopped working on it after January of

2010 (though, 2010 still feels ancient to me.) I've come a long way

since then, but this program fills me with mellow nostalgia.

### Building and Running It

If you just want to play around with it, you can boot the premade

floppy disk image in qemu with the following command:

    $ qemu-system-i386 -fda src/basic-grub-floppy.img -boot order=a

If you like, you can also write the disk image onto a floppy disk, and

run the "OS" on real hardware:

    $ sudo dd if=src/basic-grub-floppy.img of=/dev/fd0

If you want to use the easy way to build a disk image from the latest

source code, you'll need to have root access via sudo. That way took

the least amount of effort for me to set up.

    $ cd src

    $ make lispos-floppy.img

Then, you can either run qemu manually:

    $ qemu-system-i386 -fda src/lispos-floppy.img -boot order=a

or use the handy shortcut I added to the makefile:

    $ make qemu