Common Lisp interpreter for DOS?

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old dog
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Common Lisp interpreter for DOS?

Post by old dog » Tue Oct 06, 2015 1:35 pm

I am using CLISP on my linux machine to learn the language. I would also like to have a Common Lisp interpreter on my 486 machine, DOS 6.22. Was there ever a CLISP version for DOS? Looking for something free and that will fit on a 1.44MB floppy.

Thanks for any help. Skippy

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Re: Common Lisp interpreter for DOS?

Post by nuntius » Tue Oct 06, 2015 6:16 pm

I never had a machine to run it, but there was a PC-Lisp by Peter Asherwood-Smith for that class of machines. You might be able to find a copy somewhere.

It would be good for a bit of nostalgia. It wouldn't be good for a development environment.

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Re: Common Lisp interpreter for DOS?

Post by Goheeca » Wed Oct 07, 2015 3:10 am

I once tried SSCL in DOSBox, there are also non-free versions e.g. GCLISP. When I was porting ccmake (part of the cmake) to DOS, for a moment I had an intention to port a mature CL implementation (such as SBCL) to DOS, but I resigned from it because of its complexity.
Note aside: I had found and used Ufasoft for Win CE.
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Re: Common Lisp interpreter for DOS?

Post by old dog » Sat Oct 24, 2015 6:28 pm

Just got around to trying SSCL. Just what I was looking for. Thanks

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