Genera (operating System) - Highlights

Highlights

• Genera is written completely in Lisp (using Zeta Lisp and Symbolics Common Lisp)
• Even all the low-level system code is written in Lisp (device drivers, garbage collection, process scheduler, network stacks, etc.)
• The source code is more than a million lines of Lisp and available for the user to be inspected and changed. The source is relatively compact, compared to the provided functionality, due to extensive reuse
• The operating system is mostly written in an object-oriented style using Flavors, New Flavors and CLOS
• It has extensive online documentation readable with the Document Examiner
• Dynamic Windows provides a presentation-based user interface
• The user interface can be used locally (on Lisp Machines and MacIvories) and remotely (using X11)
• Groups of developers can work together in a networked environment
• A central Namespace Server provides a directory of machines, users, services, networks, file systems, databases and more