[HECnet] VAX Lisp

Op 16 jan. 2019 om 12:14 heeft Keith Halewood <Keith.Halewood at pitbulluk.org> het volgende geschreven: Hi Tim, Thank you so much for this. It has made things so much easier. I have 128Mb page file quota and a huge working set locally and even under SIMH the performance is much much better than simple tests on ROSIE were leading me to believe. Now I just have to find the Algol 68RS VAX/VMS compiler we used to use at Liverpool University in the 80s. :) Regards Keith On 16 Jan 2019, at 02:13, Tim Sneddon <tim at sneddon.id.au> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 4:36 AM Keith Halewood <Keith.Halewood at pitbulluk.org> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I?ve been seeing references to VAX Lisp installation savesets available on CONDIST media (March 1993) through google search but the links go nowhere and the messages are around 7 years old anyway. So? >> >> >> >> Does anybody have the media I could ?borrow? and the product key, pretty please? There are references to its status being ?retired? like Bliss32. I didn?t get a response from HP?s hobbyist administrator regarding it being available through them. >> > > BLISS-32 is definitely in maintenance mode/retirement. However, you can still get it from the Freeware CD. > > VAX LISP on the other hand was definitely retired a long time ago. However, you can find the last LISP distribution here: > > http://ftp.endlesssoftware.com.au/misc/lisp > > or > > ftp://ftp.endlesssoftware.com.au/pub/misc/lisp > > As for a license, this should do the trick: > > $ LICENSE REGISTER LISP - > /ISSUER=VLF - > /AUTHORIZATION=VLF-HOBBYIST-0000-000852 - > /PRODUCER=DEC - > /UNITS=0 - > /ACTIVITY=CONSTANT=100 - > /OPTIONS=(MOD_UNITS) - > /CHECKSUM=2-GBLM-HEBM-GKMF-AILM > $ LICENSE LOAD LISP > >> >> >> Hoping someone can help. >> >> >> >> They have the version I want running at the Living Computers Museum on Rosie which recently moved over from a 780-5 to a 6000-640 but it appears still to be sysgen?d for 24Mb main memory (I?m sure the 6000 has more than that) and my pagefilequota isn?t big enough to do the Lisp?ing I want to do and my working set limits would result in a horrendous amount of paging. Hence the need to do it locally. >> > > The above location is where LCM acquired the kit from too. > > Regards, Tim.