Franz Lisp, written at UC Berkeley by the students of Professor Richard J. Fateman, was a Lisp system based largely on Maclisp, but written specifically to be a host for running the Macsyma computer algebra system on a Digital Equipment Corp (DEC) VAX. It appeared on the scene at the end of 1978 shortly after UC Berkeley took delivery of their first VAX 11/780 (named Ernie CoVax, the first of many systems with pun names at UCB).

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  • Franz Lisp, written at UC Berkeley by the students of Professor Richard J. Fateman, was a Lisp system based largely on Maclisp, but written specifically to be a host for running the Macsyma computer algebra system on a Digital Equipment Corp (DEC) VAX. It appeared on the scene at the end of 1978 shortly after UC Berkeley took delivery of their first VAX 11/780 (named Ernie CoVax, the first of many systems with pun names at UCB). Franz Lisp was distributed with the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) for the VAX (free to educational sites). It was also distributed on Eunice, a Berkeley UNIX emulator that ran on VAX/VMS. Piggybacking on the popularity of the BSD package, Franz Lisp was probably the most widely distributed and used Lisp system of the 1970s and 1980s.
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  • Franz Lisp, written at UC Berkeley by the students of Professor Richard J. Fateman, was a Lisp system based largely on Maclisp, but written specifically to be a host for running the Macsyma computer algebra system on a Digital Equipment Corp (DEC) VAX. It appeared on the scene at the end of 1978 shortly after UC Berkeley took delivery of their first VAX 11/780 (named Ernie CoVax, the first of many systems with pun names at UCB).
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  • Franz Lisp
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