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* **Revive and debug LOOPS**: [LOOPS](https://xeroxparcarchive.computerhistory.org/indigo/loops/doc/manual/.CHAPLOOPS.PRESS!2.pdf), the Lisp Object-Oriented Programming System, was a Xerox PARC project to add data, object, and rule oriented programming to Interlisp’s procedure-oriented programming paradigm. It was a predecessor of CLOS, the object-oriented programming component of Common Lisp.
* **NoteCards**: NoteCards is an desktop and networked hypertext system developed on Interlisp at PARC starting in the early 1980’s. This year we continued to update and modernize NoteCards in conjunction with updates to TEdit and other aspects of the Interlisp system. In addition, as an entry to an Internet contest in retro-computing, we developed the first new NoteCards type (the Web card) since the 1990’s using the NoteCards Programmer’s Interface.
* **Grammar Writers’ Workbench for Lexical Functional Grammar**: The Grammar Writer’s Workbench was constructed in the 1980s as a comprehensive graphical platform for linguistic and algorithmic research within the LFG theoretical framework (*Lexical Functional Grammar: A formal system for grammatical representation*, Kaplan and Bresnan, 1982). LFG research and teaching can still benefit from the system’s flexible interface for grammar development and testing against phenomena in a wide variety of languages.
* **Older Medley systems:** The version of Medley we started with was Medley 3.5 – an enhancement from Medley 2.0 that was the last release from Venue. But we also have archives of older Medley 2.0 compatible memory images. We can use these for preservation, testing compatibility, debugging, and running older demos. We made some progress on running these with our current emulator sources, the Harmony release of Interlisp-D using DarkStar (an emulator of the Xerox Dandelion workstation), and Medley 2.0 on DOS. These older release implementations still need some finishing, but the experiments are encouraging.
* **Older Medley systems:** The version of Medley we started with was Medley 3.5 – an enhancement from Medley 2.0 that was the last release from Venue, a Xerox spin-out company that maintained and commercialized Medley until the early 2000s. But we also have archives of older Medley 2.0 compatible memory images. We can use these for preservation, testing compatibility, debugging, and running older demos. We made some progress on running these with our current emulator sources, the Harmony release of Interlisp-D using DarkStar (an emulator of the Xerox Dandelion workstation), and Medley 2.0 on DOS. These older release implementations still need some finishing, but the experiments are encouraging.

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