[HECnet] VAX Lisp

[Keith Halewood]

Hi Tim,

Thank you so much for this. It has made things so much easier. I have 128Mb page file quota and a huge working set locally and even under SIMH the performance is much much better than simple tests on ROSIE were leading me to believe.

Now I just have to find the Algol 68RS VAX/VMS compiler we used to use at Liverpool University in the 80s. :)

Regards

Keith

On 16 Jan 2019, at 02:13, Tim Sneddon <tim at sneddon.id.au<mailto:tim at sneddon.id.au>> wrote:

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