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by housel 1527 days ago
At that point it was probably the free Franz Lisp that was included in BSD Unix 4.2 or 4.3, which had an interpreter and compiler (with basically MACLISP semantics so it could run Macsyma) on VAX and mc68k platforms. As an undergraduate in 1986 I ported it to the CCI Tahoe, which was a VAX clone with a slightly simplified instruction set (and the main platform on which the BSD 4.3Tahoe release was developed).