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From: Simon Brooke <simon-brooke@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 15:29:49 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Updated Home (markdown)

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 This does not work. It isn't likely to work any time soon. If you want to learn Lisp, don't start here; try Clojure, Scheme or Common Lisp (in which case I recommend Steel Bear Common Lisp). If you want to learn how Lisp works, still don't start here. This isn't ever going to be anything like a conventional Lisp environment.
 
+What it sets out to be is a Lisp-like system which:
+
+* Can make use (albeit not, at least at first, very efficiently) of machines with at least terrabytes of RAM;
+* Can make reasonable use of machines with at least tens of thousands of processors;
+* Can concurrently support significant numbers of concurrent users, all doing different things, without them ever interfering with one another;
+* Can ensure that users cannot escalate privilege;
+* Can ensure users private data remains private.
+
 When Linus Torvalds sat down in his bedroom to write Linux, he had something usable in only a few months. BUT:
 
 * Linus was young, energetic, and extremely talented; I am none of those things.
@@ -16,3 +24,4 @@ When Linus Torvalds sat down in his bedroom to write Linux, he had something usa
 * [[vector space]]
 * [[core functions]]
 * [[system-private functions]]
+* [[users]]