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title: Lisp Machine Manual (1984)
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Lisp Machine ManualSixth Edition, System Version 99June 1984Richard
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StallmanDaniel WeinrebDavid Moon
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This report describes research done at the Artificial Intelligence
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Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Support for the
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laboratory's artificial intelligence research is provided in part by the
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Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense under
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Office of Naval Research Contract number N00014-80-C-0505.
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Preface
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The Lisp Machine manual describes both the language and the operating
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system of the Lisp Machine. The language, a dialect of Lisp called
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Zetalisp, is completely documented by this manual. The software
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environment and operating-system-like parts of the system contain many
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things which are still in a state of flux. This manual confines itself
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primarily to the stabler parts of the system. It describes how to
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program, but not for the most part how to operate the machine. The
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window system is documented separately in the Lisp Machine Window System
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manual.
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Any comments, suggestions, or criticisms will be welcomed. Please send
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Arpa network mail to BUG-LMMAN@MIT-MC.
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Those not on the Arpanet may send U.S. mail to Richard M. Stallman
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Artificial Intelligence Lab 545 Technology Square Cambridge, Mass. 02139
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Portions of this manual were written by Mike McMahon and Alan Bawden.
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The chapter on the LOOP iteration macro is mostly a reprint of
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Laboratory for Computer Science memo TM-169, by Glenn Burke. Sarah
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Smith, Meryl Cohen and Richard Ingria of LMI, and Richard Mlynarik of
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MIT, helped to correct the manual.
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Personal Note from Richard Stallman
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The Lisp Machine is a product of the efforts of many people too numerous
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to list here and of the former unique unbureaucratic, free-wheeling and
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cooperative environment of the M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence
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Laboratory. I believe that the commercialization of computer software
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has harmed the spirit which enabled such systems to be developed. Now I
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am attempting to build a software-sharing movement to revive that spirit
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from near oblivion.
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Since January 1984 I have been working primarily on the development of
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GNU, a complete Unix-compatible software system for standard hardware
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architectures, to be shared freely with everyone just like EMACS. This
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will enable people to use computers and be good neighbors legally (a
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good neighbor allows his neighbors to copy any generally useful software
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he has a copy of). This project has inspired a growing movement of
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enthusiastic supporters. Just recently the first free portable C
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compiler compiled itself. If you would like to contribute to GNU, write
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to me at the address above. Restrain social decay--help get programmers
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sharing again.
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