Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!gummo!whuxlb!floyd!cmcl2!philabs!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!Maguire@COLUMBIA-20.ARPA From: Maguire@COLUMBIA-20.ARPA Newsgroups: net.ai Subject: Lisp Portability Message-ID: <3316@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 19-Jul-83 15:24:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.3316 Posted: Tue Jul 19 15:24:00 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 27-Jul-83 00:34:32 EDT Lines: 30 From: Chip Maguire[In response to Chris Ryland's message to Editor-People. -- KIL] Once again T is Touted as "... the most efficient and portable Lisp to appear on the market." As one of the people associated with the development of PSL (Portable Standard LISP) at the University of Utah, I feel that I must point out that PSL has been ported to the Apollo, VAX/UNIX, DECSystem-20/TOPS-20, HP9836/???, Wicat/!?!?!?, and versions are currently being implemented for the CRAY and 370 families. The predecessor system "Standard LISP" along with the REDUCE symbolic algebra system ran on the following machines (as October 1979): Amdahl: 470V/6; CDC: 640, 6600, 7600, Cyber 76; Burroughs: B6700, B7700; DEC: PDP-10, DECsystem-10, DECsystem-20; CEMA: ES 1040; Fujitsu: FACOM M-190; Hitachi: MITAC M-160, M-180; Honneywell: 66/60; Honeywell-Bull: 1642; IBM: 360/44, 360/67, 360/75, 360/91, 370/155, 370/158, 370/165, 370/168, 3033, 370/195; ITEL: AS-6; Siemens: 4004; Telefunken: TR 440; and UNIVAC: 1108, 1110. Then experiments began to port the system without having to deal with a hand-coded LISP system which was slightly or grossly different for each machine. This lead to a series of P-coded implementations (for the 20, PDP-11, Z80, and Cray). This then lead via the Portable LISP Compiler (Hearn and Griss) to the current compiler-based PSL system. So lets hear more about the good ideas in T and fewer nebulous comments like: "more efficient and portable".