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Original Franz Lisp was open source, your university could just download it from UCB. I ported it to the Atari ST around that time.
by rjsw 5y ago
Original Franz Lisp was open source, your university could just download it from UCB.
I ported it to the Atari ST around that time.
- usr1106 5y agoDownload in 1985? Doesn't sound too likely. I remember using internet at the university in 1989. Maybe employees had access a bit earlier. But I doubt 4 years. I used Bitnet in 1987, but that was elsewhere, to my understanding our university never had it or only later when various networks/protocols got more interconnected. Sounds more like they ordered a tape or some employee brought it from a trip to a conference.
- rjsw 5y agoThe distribution could be sent in parts by email if you didn't have FTP access. In the UK, you could connect via JANET to an ARPANET gateway at University College London to FTP stuff from the US, this was before 1985. The franz-friends mailing list is probably archived somewhere with regular messages describing how to get the distribution.