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For more information about Mesa, see: https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/mesa/

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I donated https://www.analogmuseum.org/library/beckman_EASE_installati... to this web site. The original was from my father-in-law, Professor Cyril P. Atkinson at U.C. Berkeley.


https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/mesa/

Mesa had DEFINITIONS modules, exceptions, subranges, and threads.


Last updated 1996.


Ah, didn't check that.

Nevertheless, a useful starting page to begin one's research from.

Somebody needs to create a similar list for current times. Maybe the co-author of "Elements of Programming" and preserver of "Software History" artifacts, named Paul McJones would be the right person? ;-)


The link dump includes scans of the source code and a link to this free-to-read paper on the history of the Lisp 2 project: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8267589 (I’m the author).


And here's an English translation of the History chapter from Stoyan's 1980 book _LISP-Anwendungsgebiete, Grundbegriffe, Geschichte_ [LISP Application, Basic Concepts, History]: https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/LISP/book/S...


Thanks. Even though I'm originally from Europe, the book has ended up somewhat focused on what happened on the continent where I now live. It's something I'm planning to fix for a potential second edition.


Really nice of you to share it, thank you.


I will read them over the weekend.


Here are some bibliographies, including an extensive (but old) one by Herbert Stoyan. Apologies for the rough formatting of them: https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/LISP/resour...


And it's worth pointing out here that the book itself is now freely available: https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.5555/542865


I should have given this link also: https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/LISP/book/A...


Maybe I’m missing something, but that webpage only seems to provide a PDF containing the beginning of the book (up through the Preface). Perhaps you need a ACM Digital Library Premium subscription to access the entire book?


Sigh -- they keep changing the rules. I think you have to have a free ACM account. If you send me an email (see my home page in my profile), I'll send you a PDF.


I appreciate your offer, but there’s no need. I subsequently found a copy here:

https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/LISP/book/A...


This URL gives a choice of format: online, purchase hardcopy, or download PDF (requires free account): https://www.nationalacademies.org/publications/28594


Was your work on the 6502 perhaps in the 70s?


This was after and before the work on the time travel chip


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