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Maxima was the port of Macsyma to Franz Lisp at UC Berkeley done by Prof. Fateman and his students. Franz Lisp was written to be Mac Lisp compatible for the so

by e40 6y ago

Maxima was the port of Macsyma to Franz Lisp at UC Berkeley done by Prof. Fateman and his students. Franz Lisp was written to be Mac Lisp compatible for the sole purpose of running Macsyma. Prof Fateman worked on Macsyma at MIT.

minxomat 6y ago
And today Franz Lisp is instrumental in running older maclisp programs because the Franz lisp binaries still run unmodified on current BSD releases (with kernel compatibility turned on).
- e40 6y ago
  That's amazing. VAX or 68k binaries?
  - minxomat 6y ago
    Less exciting than that, the first BSD port. Details are here: https://github.com/turbo/netlisp https://github.com/turbo/netlisp