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robarr | 2 years ago

Both Algol and Simula were ported to the 68000’s Atari ST. I remember having a box of diskettes with implementations of forth, modula , lisp, prolog, smalltalk.

I miss the those times when using a computer meant ‘programming on a computer’, and programming on a computer meant trying to find your foot on any of a dozen languages popping left and right.

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palad1n|2 years ago

There was Lisp on an Atari ST?

coldtea|2 years ago

There's even one for 8-bit Ataris:

Interlisp[28] – developed at BBN Technologies for PDP-10 systems running the TENEX operating system, later adopted as a "West coast" Lisp for the Xerox Lisp machines as InterLisp-D. A small version called "InterLISP 65" was published for the 6502-based Atari 8-bit family computer line. For quite some time, Maclisp and InterLisp were strong competitors.

rjsw|2 years ago

Cambridge Lisp was available from MetaComCo.

I ported Franz Lisp to the Atari ST.

tempodox|2 years ago

Indeed there was. The first Lisp I saw was a port of David Betz's xlisp to the Atari ST (in the 1980s). The port was buggy and I didn't have the sources, so I needed to get started on writing my own interpreter. The rest is history, as they say.

tjalfi|2 years ago

Most 8 and 16-bit microcomputers at the time had a Lisp.

fuzztester|2 years ago

There was even a Lisp on DOS.