[Info-vax] VAX Common Lisp

[Robert Carleton]

On Wednesday, October 26, 2022 at 11:01:58 AM UTC-5, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> On Wed, 2022-10-26 at 17:01 +0200, hb wrote: 
> > 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.
> Interestingly enough LispWorks run on a deep space probe, rather 
> successfully, I might add. 
> -- 
> Tactical Nuclear Kittens

Someone did a fairly deep dive into using VAX Common Lisp:

 https://netzhansa.blogspot.com/2018/08/evaluating-vax-lisp-30.html

It makes for some interesting reading.