[Info-vax] VAX Common Lisp

[Robert Carleton]

On Wednesday, October 26, 2022 at 8:58:31 AM UTC-5, 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

My understanding is that VAX Common Lisp was created from Spice Lisp. Apparently, some of the DEC Lisp team came from CMU. I asked the LispWorks team if they have any stake in VAX Common Lisp. We'll see what they say.

Cheers,

                        --Bruce