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From: welch@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Arun Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Lisp for VAX/VMS
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Date: 26 Jan 89 23:44:13 GMT
References: <299@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk> <27509@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
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In article <27509@bu-cs.BU.EDU>, gjc@bu-cs.BU.EDU (George J. Carrette) writes:
> The only free implementations of common-lisp-like Lisp for VAX/VMS that
> I know of continues to be NIL from MIT. You used to be able to write
> to the Laboratory of Computer Science at MIT to obtain NIL for a
> distribution change of something like $100. However, I doubt that this
> is still the case.
> 

Nope, it isn't any more, I'm afraid. I tried to get a newer copy than
the one I had, and discovered that I couldn't. I *might* be able to
dig up a tape for version 0.259, but I've since moved off Vaxen and
have probably recycled the tape.  

I'd agree with the advantages of it over DEC CL, though.  I also liked
the fact that it came with an emacs-clone, which I much preffered to
use over EDT.

One wierd thing was, the manual came on the tape, but was written in
bolio, a text processing language that looked like a cross between
lisp and Runoff, if I remember right.  Unfortunately, there was no
bolio-processor included....

...arun


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Arun Welch
Lisp Systems Programmer, Lab for AI Research, Ohio State University
welch@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu