Hello List -That jives with a conversation I had with John McCarthy before he
died.He said that he and friends began the LISP 1.5 (really 1.0) implementation
on the IBM 709 - and we both agreed that the idea of LISP running in an
enormous pile of vacuum tubes was and is
amazing:)Jack-----------------------------------------------------Jack
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-------- Original message --------From: Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk
<cctalk@classiccmp.org> Date: 10/2/19 07:42 (GMT-07:00) To: Bill Degnan via
cctech <cct...@classiccmp.org> Cc: Bill Degnan <billdeg...@gmail.com> Subject:
Re: LISP implementations on small machines Bill Degnan wrote:> 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.Which LISP manual is
that?The LISP I Programmer's Manual from 1960 says IBM 704. It also says
"aversion of LISP I is being prepared for the IBM
709".http://bitsavers.org/pdf/mit/rle_lisp/LISP_I_Programmers_Manual_Mar60.pdf
