Re: VAX Lisp, Macsyma, Maxima

2018-10-27 Thread jim stephens via cctalk
On 10/24/2018 4:07 PM, David Coolbear via cctalk wrote: Does anyone know if any of these are still available for OpenVMS VAX? This was posted on the Multics thread in February. Eric Swenson got the original-ish MACSYMA built and running in ITS. It's frankensteined together from a mix of

Re: VAX Lisp, Macsyma, Maxima

2018-10-25 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
If going for something non-VAX, Lisp is available on Multics. I’m feeling a bit frustrated at the moment, I’ve run into an interesting issue with SecureCRT on iOS, and emacs on Multics. The key for ‘ and “ works fine from the command line, but not from emacs. I’ve verified this with both the

Re: VAX Lisp, Macsyma, Maxima

2018-10-25 Thread Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk
How about NIL? There are some bits and pieces from ITS backups, but I don't know if there's enough to get it started, much less run a real application like Macsyma. Off on a tangent, I see T supports VAX and there was a T revival project some time ago.

Re: VAX Lisp, Macsyma, Maxima

2018-10-24 Thread r.stricklin via cctalk
On Oct 24, 2018, at 4:07 PM, David Coolbear via cctech wrote: > Does anyone know if any of these are still available for OpenVMS VAX? I don't know what "available" means in this context. But: VAX Lisp wasn't among the set of hobbyist licenses I got from HP last August. They did send me one

Re: VAX Lisp, Macsyma, Maxima

2018-10-24 Thread Glen Slick via cctalk
On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 4:07 PM David Coolbear via cctech wrote: > > Does anyone know if any of these are still available for OpenVMS VAX? 917AA VAX LISP/VMS [LISP030] or [LISP031] was on VMS Consolidated Software Distribution CD sets from at least Jan-1990 to May-1993 I have [LISP031] that I

Re: VAX Lisp, Macsyma, Maxima

2018-10-24 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
> On Oct 24, 2018, at 4:07 PM, David Coolbear via cctech > wrote: > > Does anyone know if any of these are still available for OpenVMS VAX? Part of the problem will be licensing, I think that I have copies of VAX Lisp, but I don’t think that it’s included with the hobbyist PAKs. Zane

VAX Lisp, Macsyma, Maxima

2018-10-24 Thread David Coolbear via cctalk
Does anyone know if any of these are still available for OpenVMS VAX?