[Info-vax] VAX Common Lisp

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On 10/26/22 15:58, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAX_Common_Lisp, VAX LISP was 
sold to Lucid Inc. There is a wikipedia article about Lucid. It says 
that Lucid went bankrupt in 1994 and Lucid Common Lisp was sold. VAX 
LISP isn't mentioned. Lucid Common Lisp ended up at LispWorks, which 
sells it under their own name: Liquid Common Lisp.