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Genera was an operating system and development environment for Lisp machines developed by Symbolics. It was essentially a fork of an earlier operating system originating on the MIT AI Lab's Lisp machines which Symbolics had used in common with LMI. The ~1.5 million lines of code that made up Genera are written in various Lisp dialects, with a number of extensions (such as for object-oriented programming) folded in.

Reportedly, there is a version running on 64Bit AMD/Intel under 64Bit Linux.

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genus (plural: genera) is part of the Latinized name for an organism. It is a name which reflects the classification of the organism by grouping it with other closely similar organisms.
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Lisp machines were general-purpose computers designed (usually through hardware support) to efficiently run Lisp as their main software language. In a sense, they were the first commercial single-user workstations.
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Symbolics is a privately held company that acquired the assets of the now-defunct computer manufacturer Symbolics, Inc. and continues to sell and maintain the Open Genera Lisp system and the Macsyma computer algebra system.

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Symbolics, Inc.
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In software engineering, a project fork happens when developers take a copy of source code from one software package and start independent development on it, creating a distinct piece of software.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private, coeducational research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing 32 academic departments,[3]
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The MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory was an interdisciplinary research entity at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) which became one of the most influential and accomplished in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics.
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Lisp machines were general-purpose computers designed (usually through hardware support) to efficiently run Lisp as their main software language. In a sense, they were the first commercial single-user workstations.
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Lisp Machines, Inc. was a company formed in 1979. But who cares! by Richard Greenblatt of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory to build Lisp machines. It was based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Lisp
Paradigm: multi-paradigm: functional, procedural, reflective
Appeared in: 1958
Designed by: John McCarthy
Developer: Steve Russell, Timothy P. Hart, and Mike Levin
Typing discipline: dynamic, strong
Dialects: Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp
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Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm that uses "objects" and their interactions to design applications and computer programs. It is based on several techniques, including inheritance, modularity, polymorphism, and encapsulation.
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