[Info-vax] VAX Common Lisp

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/24/2022 3:54 PM, Robert Carleton wrote:
> Does anyone here know if there was any special support in VAX Common
> Lisp for VAX clusters? It wasn't clear from the old manuals I could
> find. The VAX LISP/VMS System Access Guide (Order Number:
> AA-GH75B-TE) doesn't make any mention of it. It would be particularly
> interesting if you could move a running Lisp process between cluster
> nodes without shutting it down. If that kind of thing is also
> possible with the open source Lisp implementations, that would be
> good to know.

VMS cannot move processes between nodes. So unless
Lisp did a lot itself, then it can't either.

Traditional VMS cluster approach would be processes
running on each node sharing files and coordinating
via DLM.

No idea how that Lisp offers in that regard.

Arne