[Info-vax] VAX Common Lisp

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/26/2022 6:44 AM, Robert Carleton wrote:
> So, who wound up with the intellectual property/source for VAX Common Lisp? Is it LispWorks Ltd?

I don't know Lisp so this may be a stupid question, but are there
any reason to believe DEC did not create VAX Lisp from scratch based
on language definition?

If they did and they did not sell it off like Rdb and a few other
things, then IPR must have gone DEC->CPQ->HP->HPE and VSI
should have a license to use the source (the word here is
that VSI got license to everything VMS from HPE).

Which will not help much as HPE has no interest in VMS any
longer and VSI will not see a business case for
migrating Lisp to Alpha/Itanium/x86-64.

Arne