[HECnet] VAX Lisp

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<mailto:tim at sneddon.id.au>> wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 4:36 AM Keith Halewood <Keith.Halewood at pitbulluk.org<mailto: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.