[HECnet] VAX Lisp

Tim Sneddon tim at sneddon.id.au
Tue Jan 15 18:11:14 PST 2019


On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 4:36 AM Keith Halewood <Keith.Halewood at pitbulluk.org>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
>
> I’ve been seeing references to VAX Lisp installation savesets available on
> CONDIST media (March 1993) through google search but the links go nowhere
> and the messages are around 7 years old anyway. So…
>
>
>
> Does anybody have the media I could ‘borrow’ and the product key, pretty
> please? There are references to its status being ‘retired’ like Bliss32. I
> didn’t get a response from HP’s hobbyist administrator regarding it being
> available through them.
>

BLISS-32 is definitely in maintenance mode/retirement.  However, you can
still get it from the Freeware CD.

VAX LISP on the other hand was definitely retired a long time ago.
However, you can find the last LISP distribution here:

http://ftp.endlesssoftware.com.au/misc/lisp

or

ftp://ftp.endlesssoftware.com.au/pub/misc/lisp

As for a license, this should do the trick:

$ LICENSE REGISTER LISP -
/ISSUER=VLF -
/AUTHORIZATION=VLF-HOBBYIST-0000-000852 -
/PRODUCER=DEC -
/UNITS=0 -
/ACTIVITY=CONSTANT=100 -
/OPTIONS=(MOD_UNITS) -
/CHECKSUM=2-GBLM-HEBM-GKMF-AILM
$ LICENSE LOAD LISP


>
> Hoping someone can help.
>
>
>
> They have the version I want running at the Living Computers Museum on
> Rosie which recently moved over from a 780-5 to a 6000-640 but it appears
> still to be sysgen’d for 24Mb main memory (I’m sure the 6000 has more than
> that) and my pagefilequota isn’t big enough to do the Lisp’ing I want to do
> and my working set limits would result in a horrendous amount of paging.
> Hence the need to do it locally.
>

The above location is where LCM acquired the kit from too.

Regards, Tim.
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