[Info-vax] VAX Common Lisp

[Robert Carleton]

On Wednesday, October 26, 2022 at 12:21:58 PM UTC-5, Robert Carleton wrote:
> 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.

It turns out that a video of Hans Hübner's quest was made:

 https://player.vimeo.com/video/341012525

It's an interesting story. From his research, it sounds like the source may be too far out of reach for now. Maybe someday.