Skip to content

Why "Overlord"?

Paul M. Rodriguez edited this page Mar 17, 2018 · 2 revisions

"Overlord is the monitor of the LISP System. It controls the handling of tapes, the reading and writing of entire core images, the historical memory of the system, and the taking of dumps." -- Lisp 1.5 Programmer's Manual

Overlord is not in any way descended from Lisp 1.5, but I happened to read this section while I was looking for a name for the project.

Clone this wiki locally