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> Lisp was truly unique in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, but it required expensive hardware to run. It would be hard to conceive of a Lisp running well on a 6502 or an
by zozbot234 2y ago
> Lisp was truly unique in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, but it required expensive hardware to run. It would be hard to conceive of a Lisp running well on a 6502 or an 8086.
You'd be surprised. https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/11192/what-lisp-compilers-and-interpreters-were-available-for-8-bit-machines https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/11192/wha... Of course something like FORTH was perhaps more suited to these smaller machines, but LISP implementations were around. Many users of 6502-based microcomputers were familiar with LOGO, which is just a LISP with different syntax.