From: Ian S. King Sent: Friday, November 04, 2016 8:54 AM Ooooh. Standard Lisp. Portable Standard Lisp (which is most probably what Ian installed) was the first Lisp I learned after reading Weissman's _LISP 1.5 Primer_. We installed it at the University of Chicago Computation Center as part of making available the REDUCE symbolic mathematics package. (IIRC, that was on the Amdahl 470 under SVS, rather than on the DEC-20.) That got me interested in Lisp as a language, and I began hunting down all the different implementations I could find. The original Standard Lisp was an evalquote implementation--top-level loop is the equivalent of (print (apply (read) (read))) rather than an eval implementation with a REPL (print (eval (read))) Portable Standard Lisp is an eval dialect, and contributed to the definition of Common Lisp. In addition, it provided an Algol-like alternative syntax not unlike McCarthy's LISP 2 (the algebraic notation used in McCarthy et al. and which McCarthy used to teach Lisp programming at Stanford until he retired). Funniest thing is that we were having a Lisp programming discussion at the museum just this morning, entirely unrelated to this ClassicCmp thread! Rich Rich Alderson Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer Living Computers: Museum + Labs 2245 1st Avenue S Seattle, WA 98134 mailto:RichA at LivingComputers.org http://www.LivingComputers.org/

On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 9:19 AM, Glen Slick <glen.slick at gmail.com> wrote: I don't recall how old my CONDIST is but I'll try to give it a look-see. -- Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu> Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical Narrative Through a Design Lens Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org> Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org> University of Washington There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."