[TUHS] Franz Lisp platforms

[TUHS] Franz Lisp platforms

[L.J. Buitinck]

while trying to build Franz Lisp (from 4.3 BSD) on VAX/ULTRIX 4.5,
I noticed its peculiar list of supported platforms:

use: lispconf type
  where type is one of
  vax_4_1 vax_4_1a vax_4_1c vax_4_2 vax_4_3
  vax_eunice_vms
  sun_4_1c sun_unisoft dual_unisoft pixel_unisoft
  sun_4_2beta lisa_unisys3 mc500_2_0

I was especially surprised by "lisa_unisys3".  is that Unisoft SysIII
for the Apple Lisa?!  and does anyone know what
{dual,pixel}_unisoft and mc500_2_0 mean?

--
If I travelled to the end of the rainbow
As Dame Fortune did intend,
Murphy would be there to tell me
The pot's at the other end.

Lars Buitinck

[TUHS] Franz Lisp platforms

[Tim Bradshaw]

* L J Buitinck wrote:

> I was especially surprised by "lisa_unisys3".  is that Unisoft SysIII
> for the Apple Lisa?!  and does anyone know what
> {dual,pixel}_unisoft and mc500_2_0 mean?

You might get a better answer by asking on comp.lang.lisp, but my
guesses are that mc500_2_0 is a Masscomp 500 (?) running RTU 2.0.
Dual seem to have been people who made early 68k boards and machines
and (according to
http://www.clock.org/~fair/computers/dual-systems.html) were Unisoft's
first customer.  Didn't Sun use unisoft as well, before the BSD ports
(so sometime pre SunOS 1 I guess...).

All of these, look like early 68k Unix machines - there must
have been hundreds of kinds of these, I guess.

--tim

[TUHS] Franz Lisp platforms

[Tim Bradshaw]

[I hope I have set my address right on this one, sorry]

* L J Buitinck wrote:

> I was especially surprised by "lisa_unisys3".  is that Unisoft SysIII
> for the Apple Lisa?!  and does anyone know what
> {dual,pixel}_unisoft and mc500_2_0 mean?

You might get a better answer by asking on comp.lang.lisp, but my
guesses are that mc500_2_0 is a Masscomp 500 (?) running RTU 2.0.
Dual seem to have been people who made early 68k boards and machines
and (according to
http://www.clock.org/~fair/computers/dual-systems.html) were Unisoft's
first customer.  Didn't Sun use unisoft as well, before the BSD ports
(so sometime pre SunOS 1 I guess...).

All of these, look like early 68k Unix machines - there must
have been hundreds of kinds of these, I guess.

--tim