[LispSea] Was there ever a Lisp for VMS on Alpha?

[Ira Kalet]

There was a Common Lisp that ran on VAX VMS, called oddly enough 
VAXLisp.  It was very full function and high quality.  I think it was 
actually developed by Lucid and sold by DEC.  I don't believe it was 
ported to VMS on the Alpha.  It had full support for CLX and DECWindows. 
  The DECWindows documentation is still available on line at

http://www.sysworks.com.au/disk$cddoc04jan11/decw$book/aa-mk71b-01__a01_b2.decw$book

A quick check at the ALU site turns up the Poplog project, which DOES 
claim to support VMS, but again not clear if it runs on Alpha or just 
old VAXen.  They do claim to support Alpha/Digital Unix.

http://www.poplog.org/

Ira Kalet
University of Washington


Michael Hansen wrote:
> I bought an AlphaServer 2100 a few months ago with the intention of
> eventually buying OpenGenera. (To run on DEC Unix/Tru64 of course.) I
> have managed to save up about
> 1/5th of the cost Dave Schmidt quoted me, but it will probably be six
> months or more before I have the rest.  In the mean time, I thought I
> might play around with OpenVMS, the media kit for which I obtained
> with the machine.
> 
> There seems to be at least one Scheme interpreter which will run under
> VMS on an Alpha, that being SCM 4e1.  I will see if it builds within
> the next few days.  I am very interested in finding a Lisp, even a
> pre-Common or lightweight one, which might work as well.  Any
> ideas/leads/pointers/rumor/hearsay/innuendo?  Yes, I know Google is my
> friend, but the signal to noise ratio was disturbingly low.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Mike Hansen
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