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+# medley 
+This repo is for the overall Lisp environment for Medley / Interlisp-D / Xerox Common Lisp.
+A sub-project is Interlisp/maiko which is the emulator of the Lisp virtual machine. 
+
+NOTES:
+
+At the moment we're still in the process of sorting out what we have and insuring we start with a solid base.
+
+File Names and Extensions: Most Interlisp source file names are UPPERCASE and Interlisp didn't use file extensions for its source files.
+(note that any .TEDIT or .TXT file is probably documentation for the package of same name, at least in the library, internal/library, lispusers)
+The current repo has only Lisp sources with .LCOM and .DFASL in .gitignore. But many files don't compile in a vanilla lisp.sysout ;
+there is a file of external declarations (EXPORTS.ALL) and something called ABC that has some other record package declarations.
+
+- get the binaries lde ldex for your machine (darwin.x86_64 (mac) linux.x86_64 (linux, use VirtualBox for windows) linux.arm7l (for Raspberry Pi 4b)
+- 'run-medley -xfull35' should run the xfull35 sysout in the 'loadups' directory
+
+Each directory should have a README.md, but briefly
+- docs -- Documentation files (either PDFs or online help)
+- fonts -- raster fonts in various resolutions for display, postscript, interpress, press formats)
+- initfiles -- should have any necessary setup of directories Lisp should look in for load
+- internal -- These _were_ internal to Venue
+- library  -- packages that were supported (30 years ago)
+- lispusers -- packages that were only half supported (ditto)
+- loadups   -- has sysouts and other builds
+- sources   -- sources for Interlisp and Common Lisp implementations)
+
+Note that Interlisp and Common Lisp functions have different compilers, but it's all freely intermixed.
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