[Info-vax] VAX Common Lisp

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/23/2022 8:30 PM, Robert Carleton wrote:
> On Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 6:48:49 PM UTC-5, Dave Froble wrote:
>> On 10/23/2022 6:54 PM, Robert Carleton wrote:
>>> This is probably kind of a stretch, has VAX Common Lisp survived
>>> in some form over the years? I'm aware that Lucid picked it up
>>> later on, but it's not clear to me what happened to the VAX
>>> Common Lisp product, when Lucid began to divest their assets in
>>> the 90s. >> Don't know what you are asking.
>>
>> If you're looking for the VAX product:
>>
>> Directory DKA100:[DFE.LISP031.KIT]
...
>> If you want it, just ask ...

> David, thanks for your reply. I was more curious if the product was
> ever ported to the Alpha/Itanium/x86 architectures. I'm returning to
> VMS so I don't have any existing systems to start with. I suppose I
> could try to run VAX VMS under SimH. Is there any legitimate way to
> get a VMS software load for the VAX architecture under the VSI
> Community License Agreement? From the web site, it seems like they
> are focused on the newer architectures.
No hobbyist/community license for VMS VAX anymore.

There are other Lisp implementations available.

I know that ABCL works on VMS Alpha and Itanium. But I
am not enough skilled in Lisp to say whether it is any good.

Arne