[Info-vax] VAX Common Lisp

[Robert Carleton]

On Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 7:50:28 PM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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

ABCL is a place to start, but the Java interoperability in ABCL isn't a key requirement. I'm mostly using SBCL on Windows/Linux. VAX Common Lisp had a nice feature list. It would be nice to see it come back to life somehow.