From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-09-06T08:07:26+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] similar resources for Lisp/Scheme

Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 12:38:13AM +0900, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
>> At one time, SoftWarehouse, creators of Derive and now part of Texas
>> Instruments, sold a DOS Lisp that fit in 640K. :) For all I know, the
>> latest versions of Windows Derive may still be built on top of it. :)
> 
> Was that a standards-complete ANSI Common Lisp implementation?  If so,
> that's pretty impressive.
> 
> Actually, it's impressive anyway, by today's standards of language
> design and implementation -- though no more than I'd expect from a
> language as venerable as Lisp, if it's not the current (relatively) huge
> language Common Lisp.
> 
Not that I recall ... it was Lisp 1.5. I just dug out the manual -- the
kernel was about 50k bytes. Larger than a Forth kernel of the same
vintage by a considerable amount. :) This Lisp and the predecessor of
Derive, "muSimp", were born on an 8-bit machine, the TRS-80. A 640K DOS
box was a huge space by those standards. :)