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  1. And going deeper in the rabbit hole, there's an interesting article on LISP on MTS, with the following comment:

    "LISP gained popularity in the 1960s and 70s during the AI boom"

    Nothing changes... 🤣

    try-mts.com/lisp-introduction/

    #LISP #MTS #MichiganTerminalSystem #AI #AIBoom

  2. During the Emacs meetup yesterday, we started talking about Emacs LISP (of course) and I mentioned that I first learned LISP years (decades) ago. I was asked what version of LISP this was and I could not answer. So I've looked into this, just out curiosity.

    I learned LISP on a mainframe (Amdahl 470V/6), an IBM plug compatible system. This system ran the Michigan Terminal System as its operating system. The version of LISP available on this system was 1.5, according to Wikipedia: see link below and, in particular, reference 92 in the list at the end of the page.

    As an aside, I loved MTS. Very impressive time sharing system, supporting hundreds of simultaneous terminal users (with the aid of what were called *front end communications processors*).

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan

    #Emacs #LISP #EmacsLISP #MTS #MichiganTerminalSystem #Amdahl #Wikipedia

  3. During the Emacs meetup yesterday, we started talking about Emacs LISP (of course) and I mentioned that I first learned LISP years (decades) ago. I was asked what version of LISP this was and I could not answer. So I've looked into this, just out curiosity.

    I learned LISP on a mainframe (Amdahl 470V/6), an IBM plug compatible system. This system ran the Michigan Terminal System as its operating system. The version of LISP available on this system was 1.5, according to Wikipedia: see link below and, in particular, reference 92 in the list at the end of the page.

    As an aside, I loved MTS. Very impressive time sharing system, supporting hundreds of simultaneous terminal users (with the aid of what were called *front end communications processors*).

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan

    #Emacs #LISP #EmacsLISP #MTS #MichiganTerminalSystem #Amdahl #Wikipedia

  4. During the Emacs meetup yesterday, we started talking about Emacs LISP (of course) and I mentioned that I first learned LISP years (decades) ago. I was asked what version of LISP this was and I could not answer. So I've looked into this, just out curiosity.

    I learned LISP on a mainframe (Amdahl 470V/6), an IBM plug compatible system. This system ran the Michigan Terminal System as its operating system. The version of LISP available on this system was 1.5, according to Wikipedia: see link below and, in particular, reference 92 in the list at the end of the page.

    As an aside, I loved MTS. Very impressive time sharing system, supporting hundreds of simultaneous terminal users (with the aid of what were called *front end communications processors*).

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan

    #Emacs #LISP #EmacsLISP #MTS #MichiganTerminalSystem #Amdahl #Wikipedia

  5. During the Emacs meetup yesterday, we started talking about Emacs LISP (of course) and I mentioned that I first learned LISP years (decades) ago. I was asked what version of LISP this was and I could not answer. So I've looked into this, just out curiosity.

    I learned LISP on a mainframe (Amdahl 470V/6), an IBM plug compatible system. This system ran the Michigan Terminal System as its operating system. The version of LISP available on this system was 1.5, according to Wikipedia: see link below and, in particular, reference 92 in the list at the end of the page.

    As an aside, I loved MTS. Very impressive time sharing system, supporting hundreds of simultaneous terminal users (with the aid of what were called *front end communications processors*).

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan

    #Emacs #LISP #EmacsLISP #MTS #MichiganTerminalSystem #Amdahl #Wikipedia