pmcjones

14 days agodiscuss

Try these:

https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/LISP/lisp15...

https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/LISP/lisp15...

https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/LISP/lisp15...

(The third one includes the source code to PDP-1 Lisp.)

pmcjones

19 days agodiscuss

For more information about Mesa, see: https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/mesa/

pmcjones

2 months agodiscuss

I donated https://www.analogmuseum.org/library/beckman_EASE_installati... to this web site. The original was from my father-in-law, Professor Cyril P. Atkinson at U.C. Berkeley.

pmcjones

3 months agodiscuss

https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/mesa/

Mesa had DEFINITIONS modules, exceptions, subranges, and threads.

pmcjones

4 months agodiscuss

Last updated 1996.

pmcjones

5 months agodiscuss

I should have given this link also: https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/LISP/book/A...

pmcjones

5 months agodiscuss

Sigh -- they keep changing the rules. I think you have to have a free ACM account. If you send me an email (see my home page in my profile), I'll send you a PDF.

pmcjones

5 months agodiscuss

The link dump includes scans of the source code and a link to this free-to-read paper on the history of the Lisp 2 project: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8267589 (I’m the author).

pmcjones

5 months agodiscuss

And here's an English translation of the History chapter from Stoyan's 1980 book _LISP-Anwendungsgebiete, Grundbegriffe, Geschichte_ [LISP Application, Basic Concepts, History]: https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/LISP/book/S...

pmcjones

5 months agodiscuss

Here are some bibliographies, including an extensive (but old) one by Herbert Stoyan. Apologies for the rough formatting of them: https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/LISP/resour...

pmcjones

5 months agodiscuss

And it's worth pointing out here that the book itself is now freely available: https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.5555/542865

pmcjones

7 months agodiscuss

This URL gives a choice of format: online, purchase hardcopy, or download PDF (requires free account): https://www.nationalacademies.org/publications/28594

pmcjones

8 months agodiscuss

Was your work on the 6502 perhaps in the 70s?

pmcjones

9 months agodiscuss

How is it possible to be in the breach for someone who never had a prosper account?

pmcjones

10 months agodiscuss

I had this one in the 1950s: https://www.theoldrobots.com/Ideal.html

pmcjones

6 years agodiscuss

I've been a happy LibraryThing user since since 2006.