Sunday, August 19, 2018

Using the VMS PATCH utility to fix a VAX LISP issue

In my previous post about VAX LISP, I complained about a misfeature of the editor that prevented binding editor functions to the Ctrl-S and Ctrl-Q keys.  In the manual, it is stated that these keys cannot be bound due...

Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Evaluating VAX LISP 3.1

The back story Back in the day, when there still existed a number of different computer architectures and operating systems, I was a huge fan of the VAX/VMS operating system. VMS was designed together with the VAX architecture,...