Hans Hubner seems to have made something here. He's a lisp and hardware hacker, he built his own jupiter ace clone (forth micro). At first glance it looks like a recent mini pc running linux with the emulator on top. I can't quite make out the logo on the front of the case... perhaps a trigkey? And he's got a symbolics keyboard to go with it. Nice demo! I couldn't find any details, only this very short video. It boots into the genera login screen in 10 secs from power up. I've got a couple of similar mini-pc's, they're pretty fast, even the N100 ones wth E-cores only. I ran some compilation benchmarks on an N100 and found it's about as fast as a 2.8 GHz i7 from around 2014, which isn't bad for a box that costs just over 100 UKP. Very low power consumption too.
View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/q1NZ2-gBa7o
If there's a fuss from whoever holds the symbolics/genera copyright, patents etc, it will be about them wanting money, I suppose. There's probably still some commercial value in it if places like gov agencies are still paying royalties to use it. It's kind of a shame they don't open the source though.
Reverse engineering the symbolics hardware and putting it on a gate array would be interesting. I expect someone has already done it somewhere!
If there's a fuss from whoever holds the symbolics/genera copyright, patents etc, it will be about them wanting money, I suppose. There's probably still some commercial value in it if places like gov agencies are still paying royalties to use it. It's kind of a shame they don't open the source though.
Reverse engineering the symbolics hardware and putting it on a gate array would be interesting. I expect someone has already done it somewhere!