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PDP 6 LISP

Lars Brinkhoff edited this page Dec 25, 2022 · 1 revision

ITS has a copy of PDP-6 LISP, found on a DECtape from Peter Samson. It's located in the . directory. To run it, the computer must be taken out of timesharing. From DSKDMP, just type lisp to start PDP-6 LISP. It has been patched to run on a PDP-10 as well.

Here is a sample session which displays HELLO-WORLD on the 340 display.

ALLOC? N

(ARRAY HELLO T 100)
36233
(DISINI (QUOTE HELLO))
NIL
(SETQ DISLIST (LIST (GET (QUOTE HELLO) (QUOTE SUBR))))
(#36171)
(DISAD (QUOTE HELLO) NIL (QUOTE HELLO-WORLD))
T
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