Most Lisp systems provide a naked version which runs in the terminal without assuming much. Development environments are loaded on top. Thus one would use SBCL

Most Lisp systems provide a naked version which runs in the terminal without assuming much. Development environments are loaded on top. Thus one would use SBCL typically either with GNU Emacs and the SLIME environment for it. Alternatively there is something like: McCLIM and SBCL. McCLIM provides a similar user interface management system to what Symbolics used. If one uses something like LispWorks or Allegro CL, they have their IDEs integrated and one can typically start them directly into the IDE.