[Info-vax] VAX Common Lisp

[Robert Carleton]

On Monday, October 24, 2022 at 3:37:13 PM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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

I see. It sounds like the Lisp application would need to make use of DLM to use the VMS cluster facilities. I'll have to see what kind of Lisp implementations I can get working on VMS, then worry about DLM later.