Make LispM code FREE (fwd)

Rainer Joswig joswig@lavielle.com
Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:52:09 +0200


At 15:31 Uhr +0200 31.03.1998, Fare Rideau wrote:

>The MIT AI lab is already planning to make the MIT Lisp Machine system
>free--if they can find a copy of the sources.  That may not be easy.
>I don't have a copy myself.
>
>I will forward your message to them.
>
>----- End of forwarded message from Richard Stallman -----

Hmm, isn't the Lisp Machine source really ancient?
Before 1980? Before Common Lisp? Written for
special hardware? Based on MacLisp (-> Lisp Machine Lisp)?

What would you do with it?

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