Interlist-VAX: A Report

They do not necessarily reflect those of the Xerox Corporation, Stanford University, or the University of Southern California. This study was funded in part through the SUMEX Computer Project at Stanford University under grant 1212-007R5 from the Biotechnology Resources Program of the National Institutes of Health. I. INTRODUCTION Since November 1979, a group at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California has been working on ell implementation of Interlisp for the DEC VAX-scries1 computers. 'Ibis report is a description of the current status, future prospects, and estimated character of that Interlisp-VAX implementation. It is the result of several days of discussion with those at ISI involved with the implementation (Dave Dyer, Hans Koomen, Ray Bates. Dan Lynch); with John L. White of MIT, who is working on an implementation of another Lisp for the VAX (NIL); with the implementors of Interlisp-Jericho at 1311N (Alice Hartley, Norton Grecnfeld, Martin Yonkc, John Vittal, Frank Zdybel, Jeff Gibbons, Wryle Lewis); with the implementors of Franz Lisp and Berkeley Unix2 at U.C. Berkeley (Richard Fateman, Bill Joy, Keith Sklower, John Foderaro); and with my colleagues at Xerox PARC. An earlier draft of this report was circulated to the parties involved in the Interlisp-VAX discussions. 'Ibis document has been revised as a result of comments received.