VAX Lisp, Macsyma, Maxima

[jim stephens]

On 10/24/2018 4:07 PM, David Coolbear via cctalk wrote:
> Does anyone know if any of these are still available for OpenVMS VAX?
This was posted on the Multics thread in February.

Eric Swenson got the original-ish MACSYMA built and running in ITS.

It's frankensteined together from a mix of source and FASL files from
ITS, Lisp machine Macsyma sources, etc.


You might contact him.  Email me off list, and I'll forward his contact 
info if you can't contact him thru the
Multicians list.  I would imagine it's not for the faint hearted to get 
it going if you do not have experience with
Lisp.

I played with it quite a lot in 75 on the Multics system  It was like 
I'd discovered that Hal9000 was real, as everyone
probably  knows.

I have somewhere a complimentary copy from the people who licensed it 
and had a version for the x86.  I think
4 of the original people on the project worked for the company which did 
it, and they were very nice if your
were a real multician.  But that won't have any sources, just an install 
for the system you used it on.

It would be great for someone to do that if it worked and you can get it 
to run there.
thanks
Jim