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- From: welch@sacral.cis.ohio-state.edu (Arun Welch)
- Subject: Re: How can I run INTERLISP?
- In-Reply-To: inglehar@bert.eecs.uic.edu's message of Wed, 9 Sep 1992 19: 56:40 GMT
- Message-ID: <WELCH.92Sep10095347@sacral.cis.ohio-state.edu>
- Originator: welch@sacral.cis.ohio-state.edu
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- References: <1992Sep9.195640.5922@bert.eecs.uic.edu>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 14:53:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep9.195640.5922@bert.eecs.uic.edu> inglehar@bert.eecs.uic.edu (James Inglehart) writes:
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- I have a 1977 INTERLISP program, written at Stanford, and originally
- run under TOPS-20 at the Xerox PARC facility. (Its author has suggested
- to me that it may still run under "Xerox Lisp.")
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- Interlisp still exists, it's now a part of Medley, which is a
- combination of Interlisp-D and Common Lisp. You can get info on the
- product by calling Venue at (800)-228-5325, or send mail to
- AISupport.mv@envos.xerox.com. Medley runs on a wide variety of
- architectures, so you should be able to get it running
-
- Should I resign myself to learning Lisp and translating this old program
- into some more modern dialect (GNULisp, for example)? This could take me
- a month or more. But I must get this program running.
-
- There are a couple of IL to CL translators in the Medley LispUsers
- Archives on nervous.cis.ohio-state.edu:pub/lispusers/medley, but they
- generally require some hand tweaking of the resulting code. Given that
- you don't know Lisp right now, that might take a bit of work.
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- I've resurrected some truly ancient code to run under recent releases
- of Medley, and it's been pretty painless.
-
- ...arun
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- Arun Welch
- Lisp Systems Programmer, Lab for AI Research, Ohio State University
- welch@cis.ohio-state.edu
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