[Simh] mac lisp on pdp-10?

[Tim Newsham]

the common lisp port was written by a group of
students and is known to have many issues.

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Tomasz Rola <rtomek at ceti.pl> wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2012, Tim Newsham wrote:
>
>> Can ITS and maclisp run on the simh pdp-10 emulator?
>> Does it run shrdlu?
>
> Unless you want this exact thing as a kind of archeological exercise, the
> original guys behind SHRDLU claim to have it ported to Common Lisp.
>
> http://hci.stanford.edu/~winograd/shrdlu/
>
> http://hci.stanford.edu/winograd/shrdlu/code.tar
>
> http://hci.stanford.edu/~winograd/shrdlu/download/consoleshrdlu.zip
>
> From what I have seen in Maclisp-ed source code of it, Common Lisp is
> indeed descendant of Maclisp, and the code looks quite familiar. So if the
> Windows console port does not work, it may be possible to hack on original
> a bit and load it anyway into generic CL environment. Well, maybe a little
> more than just a bit - CLISP.exe included with zip is ooooold,
> XX-century oooold...
>
> (My first post here, so hello everybody. I am simply curious and
> fascinated with stuff that doesn't want to go away in spite of all
> marketing hype - I suspect this stuff has strong qi in it, I want some
> of this qi for myself).
>
> Regards,
> Tomasz Rola
>
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