[HECnet] VAX Lisp

[Hans Vlems]

I’m interested in the Algol distribution!
Algol-60 ?

Regards
Hans Vlems

Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone

> Op 16 jan. 2019 om 12:14 heeft Keith Halewood <Keith.Halewood at pitbulluk.org> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> 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> wrote:
> 
>> 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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