LISP implementations on small machines

Bill Degnan billdegnan at gmail.com
Wed Oct 2 08:22:45 CDT 2019


On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 4:39 AM Lars Brinkhoff via cctech <
cctech at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> Mark Kahrs wrote:
> > The first implementation was done for the 7090 by McCarthy (hence CAR
> > and CDR --- Contents of Address Register and Contents of Decrement
> > Register).
>
> Or was it an IBM 704?
>

First full version 7090 and then a version was ported tot he PDP-1 that was
less powerful.  This is straight from the LISP manual on site.
Bill


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