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Aucbvax.4765 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Wed Oct 28 18:08:56 1981 Re: lisp >From obrien@RAND-UNIX Wed Oct 28 17:18:28 1981 From my notes on the Delaware USENIX, June of 1980:

Bob Kirby U. of Maryland ULISP, a dialect of LISP

ULISP is an interpreter which has been around for some time running under Version 6. It's written in an extremely ugly assembler, PAL-11R, but it supports several nice features of UNIVAC LISP, such as a prettyprinter, an S-expression editor, a debug package, a version of MICRO PLANNER, NLISP, incore sorting, and the creation of satellite processes. The compiler does require a kernel modification to provide writeable I-space because that is how it runs: it essentially copies code into the I-space of its process. It has a full arithmetic package, and he provides an online manual, available as U. of Maryland report TR546.

This is the only other 11 LISP I personally know of besides Harvard's. I have no experience with it.

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