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Want older Medley / Interlisp-D versions with available emulators #489

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masinter opened this issue Sep 19, 2021 · 18 comments
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Want older Medley / Interlisp-D versions with available emulators #489

masinter opened this issue Sep 19, 2021 · 18 comments

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It would be useful for both debugging and archival purposes to be able easily to run Older systems on modern hardware

  • Medley 2.0 on DOS
  • lyric on DarkStar
  • Interlisp-10 on PDP-10/Tenex or TOPS-20

These all work but we need to collect together the software or pointers and instructions.
The Interlisp/DOS repo was set up for the first,

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masinter commented Jul 27, 2022

docker pull jgoerzen/dosbox
will get a docker image with a DOS/x86 emulator.
The DOS repo has instructions on how to run DOS Medley on a DOS machine.

https://eaasi.gitlab.io/eaasi_user_handbook/overview/demo.html#

@fghalasz -- could this work with the online medley setup ?
@Anzus has some experience with medley DOS
@ekaltman -- any ideas on getting this with eaasi?
@alexshendi -- thanks for doing the work to get us this far.
@MattHeffron -- were you running Medley 2.0 on DOS back in the day?

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nbriggs commented Jul 27, 2022

@alexshendi -- cool! Screenshot appears to be missing (neither in the e-mail nor in the github comment).

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nbriggs commented Jul 27, 2022

Thanks. Yeah, if you share the patch (or github branch) I'll look at incorporating it.

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Screenshot_20220727-231944

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alexshendi commented Jul 29, 2022 via email

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nbriggs commented Jul 29, 2022 via email

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masinter commented Dec 28, 2022

Wasn't sure where to put these notes, but this issue is a start.

There is also Interlisp-10 for the TENEX, TOPS-20 systems
https://github.com/Interlisp/dddv

Michele Denber

Here's how I got Interlisp-10 to run on my Sun T4-1 SPARC machine running Solaris 11.4.

I got the KLH10 PDP-10 emulator from here:https://github.com/PDP-10/klh10.  Follow the directions in install.txt to compile the emulator.

  To start the PDP-10:

denber@hemlock:/opt/klh10$ ./kn10-kl ./inst-klt20.ini

This starts the machine (with a long list of configuration questions that I've omitted here) and eventually boots TOPS-20.


Set up your terminal:

$ TER NO RAI (enable lowercase)

$ set term VT100

$ enable (get access to all commands)


Make yourself an account:


$ build <denber>

$$ permanent infinity

$$ enable

$$ wheel

$$ <CR>

$


Make a subdirectory for Lisp:


$ build <LISP>

$$ permanent infinity

$$ enable

$$ wheel

$$ <CR>

$


Get a copy of the DECUS tape with Interlisp-10 on it from http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/tapes/decuslib20-01.tap.bz2  From this you will need to extract the files netlisp.sav and boot.sav.

Unzip the tape file and place it in your KLH10 directory on the host, then in the emulator mount the tape:

$ ^<span>    (You type CTRL-\ here)

$[HALTED: FE interrupt]

 

KLH10> devmount mta0 decuslib20-01.tap

Mount requested: "decuslib20-01.tap"

KLH10> [mta0: Tape online]

c  (You type c for continue)

Continuing KN10 at loc 01047516...

$

Now read the two files from the tape:

$ dumper

DUMPER> rew  (it wants a device spec, so next tell it)

mta0:

DUMPER> transfer <DECUS20-0004>NETLISP.SAV NETLISP.SAV.

 Loading files into PS:

 End of tape.

DUMPER> rew

mta0:

DUMPER> transfer <DECUS20-0004>BOOT.SAV BOOT.SAV.

 Loading files into PS:

 End of tape.

 

DUMPER>exit


(copy netlisp.sav and boot.sav to <LISP>)

$ copy netlisp.sav <LISP>

$ copy boot.sav <LISP>


Now finally we can start Lisp:

$run <LISP>netlisp.sav

 

It will complain about missing two files, TOPS20.RELEASE and TOPS20.RELEASEINTERLISP-10.  I haven't found them yet but their absence doesn't seem to hurt anything.  You should then see the Interlisp "_" prompt (supposed to be a left arrow).


_T

T

5 + 4

9

etc.


That's it.  When done, just ^C to exit Interlisp.


There's a good user's guide to TOPS-20 here: http://www.bourguet.org/v2/pdp10/index


If you want to read in source files from elsewhere in Lisp, I think you'll need to turn them into virtual tapes and read those in with dumper.  I don't think KLH10 supports the Virtualbox notion of shared folders.  There's a good description of how to do this here: https://www.pcjs.org/software/dec/pdp10/tapes/  There may be some way to do this using a network connection in KLH10 but I haven't figured that out yet.


         

   - Michele


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nbriggs commented Dec 28, 2022

There's also sdf.org -- you can ssh twenex@sdf.org and "run public:<interlisp>lisp.exe". System is
3_ MAKESYSDATE
"31-Dec-84 20:42:07"

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masinter commented Jan 2, 2023

The TWenex implementation compared to the latest medley, to show both stability, backward compatibility' (or not).

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This issue has two topics and I'm trying to separate them by putting Android in a separate issue and leaving this one about Interlisp-10.

I found this:

For putting together an Interlisp-10 demo
Forwarded Conversation
Subject: Tenex Interlisp questions
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From: Paul McJones <paul@mcjones.org>
Date: Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 3:16 PM
To: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>
Cc: TC Rindfleisch <tcr@stanford.edu>


Larry,

Tom Rindfleisch dug into his archives and sent me a set of files from
the TENEX <lisp> directory from a system dump done on January 31, 1982
-- see first directory listing below. He also has a number of .sav files
-- see second listing below.

I've added the files to the Computer History Museum Lisp web page in the
Interlisp section
(http://community.computerhistory.org/scc/projects/LISP/index.html#INTERLISP_)
-- you can download them all from
http://community.computerhistory.org/scc/projects/LISP/interlisp/tenex/TENEX-Interlisp.zip
.

Tom suggested that you could fill me in on some of the details of how
the system is organized. I know lisp.mac is the assembly language
portion (interpreter/runtime), and a few files seem to contain Lisp
source, such as assist..1 and record..1, but it appears that not all the
Lisp source files are here. Is a .sav file created  by starting the
interpreter, loading one or more Lisp source files, and then writing out
an executable image? It would be interesting to try to get this stuff
running on one of the PDP-10 emulators that is floating around.


Paul

# Bytes Date Modified  File Name
  34642  Mar 24 1975   10lisp.tty.1*
  35765  Mar 24 1975   10lisp.tty.1.-36-*
 150838  Mar 24 1975   14lisp.tty.1*
 155180  Mar 24 1975   14lisp.tty.1.-36-*
  32929  Mar 24 1975   16lisp.tty.1*
  33945  Mar 24 1975   16lisp.tty.1.-36-*
 131853  Mar 24 1975   22lisp.tty.1*
 135775  Mar 24 1975   22lisp.tty.1.-36-*
  31968  Mar 24 1975   5lisp.tty.1*
  32880  Mar 24 1975   5lisp.tty.1.-36-*
  13900  Mar 24 1975   7lisp.tty.1*
  14325  Mar 24 1975   7lisp.tty.1.-36-*
  22603  Mar 24 1975   8lisp.tty.1*
  23235  Mar 24 1975   8lisp.tty.1.-36-*
 157550  Mar 24 1975   9lisp.tty.1*
 163015  Mar 24 1975   9lisp.tty.1.-36-*
  23345  Aug 29 1981   [archive-directory]..1*
 113438  Nov  8 1980   assist..1*
  10468  Nov 18 1978   changes.txt.80402*
  66641  May 25 1977   changes.update.1*
   9943  Jan 21 1982   cjsys.com.1*
  21139  Jan 10 1982   comlisp.report.1*
  26255  Apr 16 1981   exec.com.1*
   8653  Apr 16 1981   ftp.com.1*
  25003  Jan 19 1980   hash.com.1*
  71301  Mar 24 1975   helpadr..1*
  72340  Mar 24 1975   helpadr..1.-36-*
 314908  Apr 29 1979   helpadrf..3*
    753  Mar 24 1975   helphelp..1*
    785  Mar 24 1975   helphelp..1.-36-*
  13030  Mar 24 1975   helpidx..1*
  17465  Jun  1 1975   helpidxf..2*
    198  Jan 30 1978   init.lisp.1*
  41805  Sep  7 1981   interlisp-vax-rpt.bravo.1*
  41812  Sep 11 1981   interlisp-vax-rpt.bravo.2*
  54784  Sep  7 1981   interlisp-vax-rpt.press.1*
  54784  Sep 23 1981   interlisp-vax-rpt.press.2*
  40789  Sep 12 1981   interlisp-vax-rpt.txt.1*
 270878  May 11 1980   lisp.mac.512*
 272795  Aug 29 1980   lisp.mac.829*
  26550  Feb  8 1977   lisp.symbols.70110*
  28030  Apr 17 1979   lisp.symbols.90321*
  28090  Aug 15 1979   lisp.symbols.90810*
   3622  Apr  2 1977   masterscope.syntax.106*
  72613  Feb  7 1979   match.com.2*
  34987  Nov 19 1980   match.com.3*
  56624  Dec 14 1981   messages_n_stuff..1*
   8307  Apr 16 1981   net.com.1*
  20068  Apr 19 1981   new-lisp-messages.txt.1*
   8693  Oct 17 1975   opcodes..2*
   8817  May  4 1975   opcodes.spaghetti.1*
   1741  Jan  9 1982   passwords.com.1*
   1754  Jan 20 1982   passwords.com.2*
 127502  Jan 16 1982   record..1*
   1157  Oct 29 1974   setbackspace.com.3*
   6303  Jun 15 1976   shallow-masterscope.doc.1*
   5532  Sep 29 1976   slisp.missingfunctionslist.1*
   9604  Jul 31 1977   small-slisp.info.1*
    114  Apr 23 1980   sysall.ctl.1*
   1507  Apr 16 1980   sysall.log.1*
   1647  Apr 23 1980   sysall.log.2*
     91  Jan 30 1976   sysall.run.2*
  29049  May  8 1980   transor.com.3*
   4141  Jun 12 1975   update-policy.info.2*
   4220  Jun 12 1975   update-policy.info.2.-36-*
   1698  Jun 12 1975   update-timetable.info.2*
   1750  Jun 12 1975   update-timetable.info.2.-36-*
   6372  Apr 17 1978   usernamefile..25*
   5262  Apr 17 1978   usernames..146*
   1988  Jul 24 1977   versions.info.1*
   9975  May  6 1975   xforms.lisp16.3*
  10260  May  6 1975   xforms.lisp16.3.-36-*




./lisp/bad-lisp.sav.1
./lisp/boot.sav.125
./lisp/carhart.sav.70702
./lisp/carhart.sav.80402
./lisp/lisp.sav.10406
./lisp/lisp.sav.10521
./lisp/lisp.sav.11201
./lisp/lisp.sav.80402
./lisp/lisp.sav.90810
./lisp/make-indirect.sav.1
./lisp/sboot.sav.1
./lisp/sysall.sav.6
./lisp/whats.sav.1



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From: TC Rindfleisch <tcr@stanford.edu>
Date: Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 4:43 PM
To: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>
Cc: Paul McJones <paul@mcjones.org>


Larry Masinter wrote:

> Unfortunately, this looks like it was an incremental dump rather than
> a complete one...

Larry, I think you are right about the earlier dump being incremental.
Take a look at the attached directory listings of <LISP>, <LISPUSERS>,
and <HELPSYS> from the February 25, 1983 final full dump of the TENEX
system. It looks like these might be closer to the cumulative lisp
sources. lisp.mac is not here but may be in some other directory --
things got moved around from what I remember...

Regards, Tom R.


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From: Paul McJones <paul@mcjones.org>
Date: Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 8:55 AM
To: <tcr@stanford.edu>
Cc: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>


That certainly looks a lot more complete to me!

By the way, I ran accross a place, [TWENEX.ORG](http://twenex.org/), that is running an
emulated KL10B (on a DEC Alpha, of all things), and offering public
accounts. They have some version of Interlisp there, but not a complete
distribution. It would be interesting to try to resurrect a full system!


Paul > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>   24085 Nov  1  1982 lisp/[archive-directory]..1*
>   21139 Jan 10  1982 lisp/comlisp.report.1*
>     208 Oct 26  1982 lisp/init.lisp.2*
>     249 Dec  8  1982 lisp/init.lisp.3*
>    2614 Feb 14  1982 lisp/init.parc-10.1*
>    2415 Feb 27  1982 lisp/interlisp-vax-report-addendum.bravo.1*
>    2478 Jun  8  1982 lisp/interlisp-vax-report-addendum.txt.1*
>   41812 Sep 11  1981 lisp/interlisp-vax-rpt.bravo.2*
>   54784 Sep 23  1981 lisp/interlisp-vax-rpt.press.2*
>   40789 Sep 12  1981 lisp/interlisp-vax-rpt.txt.1*
>    9082 Oct 26  1982 lisp/lisp-maintenance.info.2*
>    1199 Oct 20  1982 lisp/make-indirect.doc.1*
>    3622 Apr  2  1977 lisp/masterscope.syntax.106*
>  153260 Dec  5  1982 lisp/parcmessage.txt.1*
>    6303 Jun 15  1976 lisp/shallow-masterscope.doc.1*
>    5532 Sep 29  1976 lisp/slisp.missingfunctionslist.1*
>    9642 Oct 26  1982 lisp/small-slisp.info.2*
>   45800 Nov  7  1982 lisp/sumexmessage.txt.1*
>    1479 Nov  7  1982 lisp/sysall.com.21109*
>     114 Apr 23  1980 lisp/sysall.ctl.1*
>    3873 Oct 18  1982 lisp/sysall.doc.1*
>    1507 Apr 16  1980 lisp/sysall.log.1*
>    1647 Apr 23  1980 lisp/sysall.log.2*
>    1613 Nov  7  1982 lisp/sysall.lsp.21109*
>      91 Jan 30  1976 lisp/sysall.run.2*
>     802 Nov  7  1982 lisp/sysall.txt.21109*
>    1971 Oct 20  1982 lisp/sysout.owners.21019*
>    2415 Oct 24  1982 lisp/sysout.owners.21024*
>    1998 Oct 31  1982 lisp/sysout.owners.21102*
>    2003 Dec  7  1982 lisp/sysout.owners.21208*
>    3318 Oct 26  1982 lisp/update-policy.info.3*
>    1572 Oct 26  1982 lisp/update-timetable.info.3*
>    6372 Apr 17  1978 lisp/usernamefile..25*
>    5262 Apr 17  1978 lisp/usernames..146*
>   24064 Nov  3  1982 lisp/utility..149*
>    1235 Oct 26  1982 lisp/versions.info.2*
>     109 Oct 21  1982 lisp/whats.doc.1*
>    9975 May  6  1975 lisp/xforms.lisp16.3*
>   10260 May  6  1975 lisp/xforms.lisp16.3.-36-*
>   
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>    6651 Jan  9  1983 lispusers/activeregions..1*
>    3543 Jan  9  1983 lispusers/activeregions.doc.1*
>    7071 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/all..4*
>    6697 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/all.com.2*
>    2446 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/all.tty.2*
>    2263 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/arithdecls..1*
>    1914 Oct 11  1982 lispusers/arithdecls.com.6*
>     159 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/arithdecls.tty.1*
>    9741 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/arithmac..2*
>    6282 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/arithmac.com.1*
>     378 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/arithmac.tty.2*
>    1624 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/bquote.tty.1*
>    5401 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/charcode..1*
>    3026 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/charcode.tty.1*
>     497 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/chat..1*
>     444 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/chat.com.1*
>    4927 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/cialphorder..1*
>    1019 Oct 11  1982 lispusers/cialphorder.com.3*
>     626 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/cialphorder.tty.1*
>   20096 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/circlprint..1*
>    7232 Oct 11  1982 lispusers/circlprint.com.5*
>   15007 Dec  7  1982 lispusers/cjsys..63*
>   10321 Dec  7  1982 lispusers/cjsys.com.70*
>    6419 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/comment.com.2*
>    6976 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/comment.lisp.2*
>    4975 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/comment.tty.2*
>    8016 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/commonfileindex..1*
>    2313 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/compilebang..3*
>    2311 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/compilebang.com.9*
>    1219 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/compilebang.tty.1*
>    1307 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/compileformslist..1*
>    1014 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/compileformslist.com.4*
>     530 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/compileformslist.tty.1*
>    1309 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/compmoderec..1*
>    1339 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/compmoderec.com.1*
>     614 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/compmoderec.tty.2*
>    4496 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/copyfile..1*
>    2525 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/copyfile.com.1*
>     144 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/copyfile.tty.1*
>    1972 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/copyright..12*
>    1486 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/copyright.com.9*
>    3941 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/copyright.tty.1*
>    4277 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/cset..3*
>    2758 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/cset.com.9*
>     450 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/cset.tty.1*
>   11866 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/databasefns..1*
>    6695 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/databasefns.com.72*
>    3918 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/dateformat..3*
>    2491 Oct 11  1982 lispusers/dateformat.com.4*
>   82032 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/datetime..1*
>   45828 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/datetime.com.8*
>    9770 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/datetime.tty.1*
>    1009 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/datetimerecords..1*
>  118578 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/decl..13*
>   62560 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/decl.com.182*
>    1645 Dec  4  1982 lispusers/dfor10..3*
>    1360 Dec  4  1982 lispusers/dfor10.com.21127*
>     835 Dec  4  1982 lispusers/dfor10.txt.1*
>   22375 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/dictionary..1*
>    3649 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/dictionary.tty.1*
>    2954 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/dolphin.txt.1*
>   19414 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/duration..24*
>   10482 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/duration.com.9*
>    1658 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/dwimload..1*
>    1238 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/dwimload.com.18*
>     133 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/dwimload.tty.1*
>   13731 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/edithist..2*
>    7211 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/edithist.com.1*
>    6578 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/edithist.doc.1*
>    5650 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/edithist.mss.1*
>   40825 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/exec..50*
>   28235 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/exec.com.54*
>    3537 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/fastnamefield..1*
>    2614 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/fastnamefield.com.7*
>     528 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/fastnamefield.tty.1*
>   10636 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/fileindex..19*
>   10456 Oct 11  1982 lispusers/fileindex.com.17*
>    1109 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/filewontopen..5*
>     833 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/fontn..1*
>     169 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/fontn.tty.1*
>     450 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/fontsoff..2*
>    4386 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/forkwaitforinput..3*
>   12876 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/ftp..29*
>    8636 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/ftp.com.23*
>     873 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/ftp.news.1*
>   66898 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/glisp.com.20128*
>  207496 Dec 16  1982 lispusers/glisp.lsp.21202*
>   81396 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/glisp.txt.20217*
>    7672 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/globalresource..4*
>    5725 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/globalresource.tty.2*
>    8839 Dec 16  1982 lispusers/gltest.lsp.20811*
>   57388 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/hash..26*
>   24540 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/hash.com.29*
>    3308 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/ignorechar..1*
>    2171 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/ignorechar.tty.1*
>    3452 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/iowaitdaemon..1*
>    2225 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/iowaitdaemon.com.7*
>     846 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/iowaitdaemon.tty.1*
>     512 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/label..6*
>     924 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/label.com.5*
>     746 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/label.tty.5*
>    7236 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/lambdatran..1*
>    4231 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/lambdatran.com.26*
>   32038 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/led..33*
>   17047 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/led.com.33*
>    6761 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/led.doc.1*
>    3748 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/lispusershelp..14*
>     231 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/lispusershelp.tty.2*
>     231 Nov 17  1982 lispusers/lispusershelp.tty.3*
>    1299 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/listdoc..7*
>     522 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/listdoc.tty.2*
>    1630 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/loadfiles..3*
>    1445 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/loadfiles.com.22*
>    1486 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/loadfiles.tty.1*
>    3018 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/loadtimeconstant..6*
>    2044 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/loadtimeconstant.com.9*
>    1082 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/loadtimeconstant.tty.2*
>    5891 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/lostlists..2*
>    3973 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/lostlists.com.2*
>    5684 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/lostlists.tty.2*
>    6001 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/mail..21*
>    3584 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/mail.com.23*
>     823 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/mail.tty.5*
>   34987 Nov 19  1980 lispusers/match.com.1*
>    1971 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/msdatabasesize..1*
>    1721 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/msdatabasesize.tty.2*
>   50928 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/msg..41*
>   27269 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/msg.com.37*
>    1674 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/msg.tty.3*
>   39572 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/mshash..195*
>   21156 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/mshash.com.177*
>    1374 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/mshash.tty.3*
>    2524 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/msswap..8*
>    1840 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/msswap.com.11*
>     193 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/msswap.tty.3*
>   37189 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/multifileindex..1*
>   25501 Oct 11  1982 lispusers/[multifileindex.com](http://multifileindex.com/).12*
>    7595 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/multifileindex.tty.1*
>    7715 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/multifileindex.tty.1.-36-*
>   33634 Jan  9  1983 lispusers/multimenu..41*
>    4764 Jan  9  1983 lispusers/multimenu.tty.5*
>    1714 Jan 18  1983 lispusers/multiw.demo.1*
>    5241 Jan 18  1983 lispusers/multiw.lsp.1*
>    4273 Jan 18  1983 lispusers/multiw.mss.1*
>    8192 Jan 18  1983 lispusers/multiw.press.1*
>    4695 Jan 18  1983 lispusers/multiw.tty.1*
>   18040 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/net..36*
>    8317 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/net.com.36*
>    4431 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/newmail.tty.14*
>    5692 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/nobox..3*
>    4041 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/nobox.com.32*
>   10905 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/nobox.tty.1*
>    7339 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/passwords..12*
>    3643 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/passwords.com.15*
>    5057 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/performtran..8*
>    3584 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/performtran.com.10*
>    2887 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/performtran.tty.3*
>    4413 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/periodicallysysout..17*
>    1935 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/permstatus..7*
>    1136 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/permstatus.com.10*
>    1158 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/pfbcpl..9*
>    1144 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/pfbcpl.com.9*
>      62 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/pfbcpl.tty.1*
>    4883 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/printl..21*
>    4653 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/printl.com.25*
>   13241 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/printopt..21*
>    8629 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/printopt.com.21*
>     298 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/printopt.doc.1*
>   13643 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/promptreminders..31*
>    6896 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/[promptreminders.com](http://promptreminders.com/).6*
>   27014 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/pup10..2*
>   17164 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/pup10.com.2*
>    6427 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/pupbsp..1*
>    3313 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/pupbsp.com.1*
>   22036 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/pupftp..7*
>   15625 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/pupftp.com.8*
>    8609 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/remind..2*
>    5112 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/remind.com.26*
>    7727 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/remind.tty.1*
>    4854 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/remotecleanup..4*
>    4057 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/remotecleanup.com.4*
>    2765 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/remotecleanup.tty.3*
>    2365 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/remotecleanupsupport..10*
>    3118 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/samedir..2*
>    2217 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/samedir.com.11*
>     794 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/samedir.tty.1*
>    2370 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/scratchlist..7*
>    1709 Oct 11  1982 lispusers/scratchlist.com.7*
>   56369 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/screenop..1*
>   46321 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/screenop.com.1*
>    3058 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/screenop.doc.1*
>    2240 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/see16..6*
>     431 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/see16.tty.2*
>    1157 Oct 29  1974 lispusers/setbackspace.com.1*
>    1463 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/show..1*
>    1350 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/show.com.19*
>     717 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/show.tty.1*
>    8633 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/simplefns..5*
>    4662 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/simplefns.com.15*
>    4259 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/simplify..1*
>    1966 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/simplify.com.6*
>   16820 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/singlefileindex..6*
>   10267 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/[singlefileindex.com](http://singlefileindex.com/).34*
>    2224 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/singlefileindex.tty.1*
>    7628 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/sizetable..34*
>    7492 Oct 11  1982 lispusers/sizetable.com.39*
>    2304 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/sizetable.tty.5*
>     788 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/skiptrailer..1*
>     587 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/skiptrailer.com.5*
>     158 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/skiptrailer.tty.1*
>    7939 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/smartarg..25*
>    4810 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/smartarg.com.31*
>     643 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/smartarg.tty.1*
>    6543 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/stringfns..14*
>    2233 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/stringfns.com.15*
>    3756 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/stringmacro..1*
>   13025 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/swaphash..55*
>    8644 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/swaphash.com.48*
>    2056 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/swaphash.tty.7*
>    1542 Nov 16  1982 lispusers/sysall.com.21116*
>    1745 Nov 16  1982 lispusers/sysall.lsp.21116*
>     802 Nov 16  1982 lispusers/sysall.txt.21116*
>    2970 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/syscond..6*
>    2263 Oct 11  1982 lispusers/syscond.com.6*
>    6796 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/tell..1*
>    7055 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/tell..1.-36-*
>    4870 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/tell.tty.1*
>   21606 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/telnet..10*
>    7123 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/telnet.com.10*
>    6845 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/time..10*
>    5443 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/time.com.14*
>    1312 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/time.tty.3*
>    9406 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/tracein..24*
>    7744 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/tracein.com.19*
>    7780 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/tracein.tty.7*
>   33542 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/transor..1*
>   18101 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/transor.com.1*
>   19185 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/tset..1*
>    9713 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/tty..2*
>    6656 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/tty.press.21207*
>   48413 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/ttyin.com.1*
>   56320 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/ttyin.press.20618*
>    1888 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/ttypage..1*
>    1092 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/ttypage.tty.1*
>    1053 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/ttypagelength..4*
>  146048 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/txdt..1*
>  195460 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/txdt.10.1*
>   61266 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/txdt.com.1*
>   36125 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/uci.xforms.2*
>   13810 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/util..4*
>    8945 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/util.com.6*
>    3704 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/vmfind..5*
>    2893 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/vmfind.com.6*
>     251 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/vmfind.tty.1*
>    4391 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/whats..7*
>    3454 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/whats.com.12*
>     192 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/whats.tty.1*
>    8150 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/whereis..45*
>    5356 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/whereis.com.51*
>   25924 Dec 25  1982 lispusers/whereis.hash.90*
>    3263 Oct  8  1982 lispusers/whois..14*
>    2617 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/whois.com.17*
>     539 Oct  9  1982 lispusers/whois.tty.4*
>   
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>   34742 Oct  9  1982 helpsys/10lisp.tty.2*
>   14099 Oct  9  1982 helpsys/11lisp.tty.2*
>   52879 Oct  9  1982 helpsys/12lisp.tty.2*
>   22809 Oct  9  1982 helpsys/13lisp.tty.2*
>  170761 Oct  9  1982 helpsys/14lisp.tty.2*
>   51978 Oct  9  1982 helpsys/15lisp.tty.2*
>   33411 Oct  9  1982 helpsys/16lisp.tty.2*
>   64512 Oct  9  1982 helpsys/17lisp.tty.2*
>   93859 Oct 11  1982 helpsys/18lisp.tty.2*
>   15047 Oct  9  1982 helpsys/19lisp.tty.2*
>   41902 Oct  9  1982 helpsys/20lisp.tty.2*
>   60706 Oct  9  1982 helpsys/21lisp.tty.2*
>  138874 Oct  9  1982 helpsys/22lisp.tty.2*
>  176165 Oct  9  1982 helpsys/23lisp.tty.2*
>   20184 Oct  9  1982 helpsys/2lisp.tty.2*
>   46514 Oct  9  1982 helpsys/3lisp.tty.4*
>    7546 Oct  9  1982 helpsys/4lisp.tty.2*
>   34988 Oct  9  1982 helpsys/5lisp.tty.2*
>   22131 Oct  9  1982 helpsys/6lisp.tty.2*
>   14179 Oct  9  1982 helpsys/7lisp.tty.2*
>   23961 Oct  9  1982 helpsys/8lisp.tty.2*
>  162216 Oct  9  1982 helpsys/9lisp.tty.2*
>   26055 Oct  9  1982 helpsys/a1lisp.tty.1*
>    1148 Oct  9  1982 helpsys/a2lisp.tty.1*
>    1290 Oct  9  1982 helpsys/a2lisp.tty.1.-36-*
>    5207 Oct  9  1982 helpsys/a3lisp.tty.1*
>  314908 Oct  9  1982 helpsys/helpadrf..6*
>    1573 Oct  9  1982 helpsys/helphelp..3*
>   37892 Oct  9  1982 helpsys/helpidxf..6*
>   


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From: Paul McJones <paul@mcjones.org>
Date: Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 11:56 AM
To: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>
Cc: <tcr@stanford.edu>


Because Stephen Jones, one of the proprieters of SDF and [twenex.org](http://twenex.org/),
told me "We currently do not have INTERLISP sources. I believe they were
taking from the DECUS library and even our installation is incomplete."
and I didn't poke around...

Larry Masinter wrote:
> Actually, [TWENEX.ORG](http://twenex.org/) has what looks like a complete
> source directory as well as a running copy. If you log
> into their emulated Tops-20 system, type
>
>   @dir <lisp>
>
> to get a list of the source files.
>
>   @TYPE <LISP>UNDO
>
> will show you the source code for the implementation
> of Interlisp 'undo' facilities.
>
> It looks like this is a pretty complete 1984 release.
> Why did you think it was "not a complete distribution"?
>
>
> Larry

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From: Paul McJones <paul@mcjones.org>
Date: Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 7:27 AM
To: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>, <tcr@stanford.edu>


OK, I took another look at [TWENEX.ORG](http://twenex.org/); it has a <lispusers> directory as
well as <lisp> but it doesn't seem to have the <helpsys> directory from
Tom's listing of the full final TENEX dump.

Tom, how much work would it be to package up the files you listed in
your previous message -- these would appear to have a good claim to be
the final version of TENEX Interlisp.


Paul

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From: TC Rindfleisch <tcr@stanford.edu>
Date: Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 7:51 AM
To: Paul McJones <paul@mcjones.org>
Cc: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>


Paul McJones wrote:

> how much work would it be to package up the files you listed in your
> previous message...

Not much at all, Paul -- I will zip them and forward the archive today...

Tom R.


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From: TC Rindfleisch <tcr@stanford.edu>
Date: Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 11:49 AM
To: Paul McJones <paul@mcjones.org>
Cc: Larry Masinter <lmm@acm.org>


Paul McJones wrote:

> how much work would it be to package up the files you listed in your
> previous message...

Paul, I am attaching the zipped directories <LISP>, <LISPUSERS>, and
<HELPSYS> from the Feb 25, 1983 dump. I also added lisp.mac.829 to the
<LISP> directory from the Jan 31, 1982 dump...

Tom R.

[lisp.830225 (+lisp.mac.829).zip](https://github.com/Interlisp/medley/files/10472821/lisp.830225.%2Blisp.mac.829.zip)
[lispusers.830225.zip](https://github.com/Interlisp/medley/files/10472822/lispusers.830225.zip)
[helpsys.830225.zip](https://github.com/Interlisp/medley/files/10472823/helpsys.830225.zip)

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          Hello,

i am experimenting a bit on my side with connecting my Dodo XNS services with some Xerox Interlisp systems. So far it works only with Lyric and Medley-1.0 running in the DarkStar emulator. Connecting with others than that fails for diverse reasons...

(remark: i am not a Lisp programmer in any way, my knowledge on how to use the Interlisp systems stems from browsing the Primer and some other PDFs found at Bitsavers, allowing me to enter very basic commands in an Interlisp-Executive window)

DarkStar with Lyric or Medley-1.0

For this, i use DarkStar 1.1.9.0 connecting directly to the Nethub (in a nutshell: the software equivalent of the thick yellow coax cable in the 80-ies) and the disk images for Lyric and Medley provided with DarkStar. My standard command to check if network access to XNS (Dodo installation in dist.zip with some files added to the "motu" file drawer) is finally working is:

DIR {fs1:}<motu>*

and then see if files are listed.

I had to experiment a bit with the lower level setup for the SPP protocol, as Interlisp seems to have a nasty behavior when listing large directories: when the Executive window lists a page height of files, it inverts to signal it is waiting for the user to do a "return" to display the next lines, but while the Executive waits, the SPP connection (more precisely the bulk-data transfer from server to workstation) seems to be blocked, not accepting more packets until the user presses "return" and apparently not even responding to system packets querying the packet queuing state! In the default setup, Dodo attempts a few packet resends and then considers the connection dead if no responses come back for system packets, so i had to increase the resend delays and max. resends to keep the connection alive for a reasonable time until the user decides to have stared long enough on the screen...

So at least the following XNS functions work for Lyric and Medley-1.0 on DarkStar: finding the clearinghouse, authenticate an user, find a file service entry in the clearinghouse and get its address, connect to the file service and list files.

Here's a screen shot:
image

DarkStar with other disk images
The emulator comes with other Lisp images, but:

  • the Koto image seems to have no (or a broken) Lisp image, pressing STOP from the initial screen to start Lisp results in MP code 0915
  • the Harmony image boots, but it uses the older version 2 of the Clearinghouse protocol instead of version 3: the problem is that the Courier descriptions that i found in the internet all stated that version 2 is same as version 3 except for the Authentication protocol version used, but this is apparently wrong, as accessing the clearinghouse for looking up the file service fails...
    (i had the same problem with Filing for StarOS, which uses version 4 of the Filing protocol, which differs from version 5 in some important data structures, despite the identical .cr files found in the internet; i'm not sure if i want to restart a new long running data structure guessing game to find out where the Clearinghouse protocol versions differ...)

Maiko

I looked at Maiko and Medley at the interlisp.org site. Not knowing how to activate networking, i looked in the sources to see how to try that and found the "ether.c" module, but reading through it (specifically all the #ifdefs) i understood that networking only works on Sun machines (and probably specific OS versions only?).

Not having such a machine (neither hardware nor emulation with a matching OS version), i postponed networking with Maiko. Are there any plans to extend network support to a standard intel/amd-cpu based linux in some more or less near future?

Ok, so much for my investigations on networking with Interlisp.

Greetings from Berlin
Hans

Originally posted by @devhawala in devhawala/dodo#8 (comment)

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Did Medley or Interlisp-D even ran on the Alto? I always thought the machine's limited RAM and resources allowed it to run only earlier Lisp versions such as DLisp(?).

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DLisp was Interlisp-10 (on Maxc emulating a PDP-10) connected to an Alto running a (PUP) net connection to an Alto. AltoLisp turned into Dorado Lisp. There are references / papers in the Zotero bibliography.
I hope we can use the Bibliography to generate a timeline, if we can get the seminal papers' metadata in Zotero updated to support that. @ekaltman @MattHeffron ?

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For AltoLisp
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.5555/1624775.1624860 A LISP machine with very compact programs
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/800087.802812 Overview and Status of DoradoLisp

for DLisp
Teitelman "A Display Oriented Programmer's assistant" and Sproull "Raster Graphics for Interactive Programming Environments".

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