Paul McJones, editor
paul@mcjones.org
http://www.mcjones.org/dustydecks/

Abstract

The goal of this project is to collect, preserve, and present source code, design documents, and other materials concerning the original LISP I/1.5 system, and as many of its follow-ons as possible. LISP was one of the earliest high-level programming languages and introduced many ideas such as garbage collection, recursive functions, symbolic expressions, and dynamic type-checking; it is still in use. This is a project of the Computer History Museum's Software Preservation Group. The editor appreciates comments, suggestions, and donations of additional materials.

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• LISP 1.5 family
  • LISP I and LISP 1.5 for IBM 704, 709, 7090
  • LISP 1.5 for CTSS
  • LISP 1.5 at Stanford
  • SHARE LISP 1.5
• Other LISP 1.5 implementations
• LISP 1.5 for Univac M-460 (Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories)
• LISP 1.5 for AN/FSQ-32/V (System Development Corporation)
• LISP 1.5 for IBM M44 (Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories)
• LISP 1.5 for IBM 360 at SDC
• LISP 1.5 for Raytheon 704 at SDC
• MBLISP (Martin Baltimore)
• LISP 1.5 for CDC 6000 series (University of Texas, Austin)
• Stanford Lisp/360
• RPI LISP 1.5 for IBM System/360 (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
• LISP 1.5 for Univac 1108 (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
• ALISP for CDC 6000 (Cyber 72) series (University of Massachussets Amherst)
• LISP 2 family
  • LISP 2
  • GTL for Burroughs B 5500 at Georgia Institute of Technology
  • CRISP for IBM 370 at SDC
• Interlisp family
  • Basic PDP-1 LISP
  • SDS 930 LISP
  • BBN LISP
  • INTERLISP
  • Interlisp-D
• MacLisp family
  • LISP 1.5/1.6/MACLISP for PDP-6/10
  • Multics Lisp (Multics MacLisp)
  • Zetalisp for Lisp Machines
  • NIL (New Implementation of Lisp), S-1 Lisp
  • Franz Lisp
  • Spice Lisp
• Stanford LISP 1.6 family
  • Stanford LISP 1.6
  • UCI LISP 1.6
  • Rutgers LISP 1.6
  • Rutgers ELISP
  • Yale TLISP
  • C-MU LISP
• IBM 360/370 LISP family
• Standard LISP family
  • Standard LISP
  • Portable Standard Lisp (PSL)
  • Cambridge Lisp
• Scheme family
  • Scheme
  • T
• VLISP
• Le_Lisp
• UtiLisp
• Common Lisp family
  • Specification
  • Books
  • Implementations - open source
  • Implementations - commercial
• EuLisp
• ISLISP
• Other Lisps
  • DECUS PDP-8 LISPs
  • Uppsala Lisp: F1, F3 and F4
  • Lisp 1.6 for IBM 1130 (Boston Latin School)
  • CIMAS LISP (National University of Mexico)
  • MTS LISP (Michigan Terminal System, University of Michigan)
  • ECSD Lisp (Edinburgh Computer Science Department)
  • Harvard LISP
  • PDP-11 LISP (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  • COINS Lisp for VAX/VMS (University of Massachussets Amherst)
  • GLISP (Stanford University and University of Texas))
  • LispKit Lisp (Oxford University)
  • PicoLisp
  • muLISP
• Embedded Lisps
  • Emacs Lisp
  • LISP Shell (Yale)
  • Tinylisp (DEC SRC)
  • XLISP
  • ECL
• Parallel Lisps
  • Butterfly PSL (Portable Standard Lisp)
  • Connection Machine Lisp
  • Connection Machine *Lisp (StarLisp)
  • Multilisp
  • Qlisp
  • SPUR Lisp
  • Symmetric Lisp
  • UMass Parallel Common Lisp (University of Massachusetts Amherst) and Top Level Common Lisp
• Other resources for the history of LISP
  • LISP in education and research
  • Bibliographies
  • Papers and books about LISP and its history
  • Biographies, interviews, and oral histories
  • Lisp periodicals
  • Archival collections
  • Photographs
  • Audio/video
  • Related resources

Acknowledgements

This project is dedicated to Professor Doctor Herbert Stoyan, who has dedicated many years to tracing the development of Lisp from its birth in John McCarthy's project at M.I.T. through its world-wide diaspora, and who very generously donated his Lisp archives to the Computer History Museum: the Herbert Stoyan Collection on LISP Programming, Lot Number X5687.2010. Stoyan's collection may be searched via the finding aid or the Museum's catalog.

Many other people contributed information, manuals, and software:

• Bob Abeles, Paul W. Abrahams, John R. Allen, Giuseppe Attardi, Jeff Barnett, Bruce G. Baumgart, Alan Bawden, David Betz, Fred Blair, Robert Brayton, Daniel G. Bobrow, Lars Brinkhoff, Phil Budne, Alexander Burger, Howard I. Cannon, Mats Carlsson, George Carrette, Jérôme Chailloux, Masaomi Chiba, Rich Cornwell, Timothy Daly, Josh Dersch, L. Peter Deutsch, Deborah Douglas, Daniel J. Edwards, John R. Ellis, Edward Feigenbaum, Robert R. Fenichel, Edward Fredkin, Tayssir John Gabbour, Richard P. Gabriel, Richard Greenblatt, Adolfo Guzmán-Arenas, Anders Haraldsson, Jack Harper, Timothy P. Hart, Lowell Hawkinson, Zane H. Healy, Charles L. Hedrick, Steven O. Hobbs, Rainer Joswig, Paul Kimpel, Robert L. Kirby, Jon Kleiser, Tom Knight, Al Kossow, Alan Kotok, Michael I. Levin, John Lewis, Paco Linux, Emílio C. Lopes, John D. Lowrance, Andru Luvisi, Kazimir Majorinc, Klim Maling, Larry Masinter, J.P. Massar, Blake McBride, John McCarthy, Harold V. McIntosh, Jim Meehan, Jonathan K. Millen, The MIT Press, David A. Moon, Joel Moses, Daniel L. Murphy, Marvin L. Minsky, Beryl Nelson, Eric Norman, Gordon S. Novak, Jr., Julian Padget, Angelo Papenhoff, Chris Perdue, Kent M. Pitman, Dave Pitts, Lynn H. Quam, Thomas C. Rindfleisch, SDF Public Access UNIX System (TWENEX.ORG), Stephen R. Russell, Peter R. Samson, Robert A. Saunders, Raymundo Segovia, Carl Shapiro, Stanley T. Shebs, Tim Shoppa, Olin Sibert, Guy L. Steele Jr., Bob Supnik, Tetsuro Tanaka, Warren Teitelman, Graham Toal, David Touretzky, Alberto Verjovsky, Björn Victor, Eiiti Wada, Clark Weissman, JonL White, and Robert Yates.