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Subject: Lisp shells
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Date: 3 Aug 89 01:22:14 GMT
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John Lacey requested information on Lisp shells. John Ellis implemented
a shell for a PDP-11/45 running Unix in Harvard Lisp in 1979. 
	"A LISP SHELL"
	John R. Ellis
	ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Vol. 15 #5, May 1980

John Levine has a paper about using Lisp for a command language in the
same issue of SIGPLAN Notices ("Why a Lisp-Based Command Language?").

Of course, you might do well to look into the Lisp Machine interface,
both before and after the fancy Symbolics interface that allowed
non-Lisp-syntax commands.
	-Olin