Larry Masinter Lisp materials donated to Computer History Museum, Lot X6058.2011

Cataloged by Paul McJones

February 6, 2011 (updated April 8, 2011)

I. Source code

• Larry Masinter. SYSTEM.DOC. Line printer listing, February 8, 1972. Macro package for Stanford Lisp/360 written for the Dendral project.  [*]

II. Manuals

BBN-LISP

• W. Teitelman, D. G. Bobrow, A. K. Hartley, and D. L. Murphy. BBN-LISP: TENEX Reference Manual. Bolt, Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 1971. Handprinted label on Accopress cover says "Gerald Jay Sussman BBN-LISP".
  

Franz Lisp

• John K. Foderaro. The Franz Lisp Manual : A document in four movements. University of California at Berkeley, October 1980.

INTERLISP

• Warren Teitelman et al. INTERLISP Reference Manual. Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, California, second revision, December 1975.

Interlisp-VAX

• Raymond Bates, David Dyer, Andrea Ignatowski, Johannes Koomen, Steven Saunders, and Donald Voreck. Interlisp-VAX Users Manual. Interlisp-VAX Project, USC Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, California, December 5, 1982, 57 pages.
  

Interlisp-D

• Mary Ann Quayle, Jeffrey Bonar, William Weil. The Friendly Dandelion Printer. Intelligent Tutoring Systems Group, Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh, DRAFT, April 1984, 30 pages.
• Jeffrey Bonar, William Weil, Mary Ann Quayle, John Corbett, John Elion, and Alan Lesgold. The Advanced, But Still Friendly, Dandelion Printer. Intelligent Tutoring Systems Group, Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh, April 1984, 62 pages.

IQLISP 

• Integral Quality. IQLISP Reference Manual, Version 1.0, January 1983. LISP for IBM PC-compatible with 64K bytes or more running MS-DOS 1.1.

Kyoto Common Lisp

• Taiichi Yuasa and Masami Hagiya. Kyoto Common Lisp Report. Research Institute for Mathematics Sciences, Kyoto University, IBUKI, 399 Main Street, Los Altos, CA 94022, 1985, 123 pages. Spiral bound; includes Appendix B: An Overview of Kyoto Common Lisp.

Le_Lisp

• Jérôme Chailloux. Le_Lisp Version 15.2, Le manuel de référence, Rapport INRIA, November 1986, 3e édition.
  

Lightship Scheme

• Lightship Software, Inc. MacScheme. Volume I: MacScheme user's Guide. Volume II: MacScheme Reference Manual (based on R^2 and R^3 Reports on Scheme). Retail package. 3-ring binder, floppy disk.

LISP/66 

• LISP/66 User's manual, Version 4.0, University of Waterloo, January 1983, 63 pages. Describes interactive LISP interpreter for Honeywell 6000 series computers with EIS or Honeywell Series 60 Level 66 computers, running TSS/GCOS system of release H or later. Printed two-up on 11"x13" line printer paper. [*]

Portable Standard LISP

• M.L. Griss and B. Morrison. The Portable Standard LISP Users Manual. Technical Report TR-10, Utah Symbolic Computation Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Utah, March 1981. (Preliminary Version: 18 January 1982)
• Anthony C. Hearn. Reduce 2 User's Manual, Second Edition. UCP-19, University of Utah, March 1973. [*]

T

• Jonathan A. Rees, Norman I. Adams, and James R. Meehan. The T Manual. Third Edition, Computer Science Department, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, May 3, 1983.

3-LISP

• Brian C. Smith and Jim des Rivieres. Interim 3-LISP Reference Manual. Cognitive and Instructional Sciences, Palo Alto Research Center, Xerox Corporation, May 25, 1983, 123 pages. [*]

III. Papers and technical reports

• Michael Beckerle, Paul Beiser, Jerry Duggan, Robert Kerns, Kevin Layer, Thom Linden, Larry Masinter and David Unietis. Extensions to Common LISP to Support International Character Sets. February 22, 1989, 43 pages.
• Scott E. Fahlman, Guy L. Steele, Gail E. Kaiser, and Walter van Roggen. Internal Design of Spice Lisp. Spice Document S026, Spice Project, Department of Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon University, December 20, 1981, 60 pages.
• Toshiaki Kurokawa, Taiichi Yuasa, Yukiko Hashimoto, Takayasu Ito, et al. Technical Issues on International Character Set Handling in LISP. ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 16 LISP Number 49, Version 2, March 1989, 30 pages.
• Larry Masinter, N.S. Sridharan, Joshua Lederberg, et al. Applications of Artificial Intelligence for Chemical Inference: XII. Exhaustive Generation of Cyclic and Acyclic Isomers. Memo 216, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Stanford University, September 1973. [microfiche]
  
• Larry M. Masinter: Interlisp-VAX: A Report. STAN-CS-81-879, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, August 1981. Also numbered HPP-81-14.
  
• Larry Masinter and Bill vanMelle. Report on Common Lisp to the Interlisp Community. Email message, circa December 1981, 8 pages.
• Larry Masinter. Common LISP Cleanup. P88-00041, Systems Sciences Laboratory, Palo Alto Research Center, Xerox Corporation, January 10, 1988, 5 pages.
  
• Charles Rich and Howard E. Shrobe. Initial Report on a Lisp Programmer's Apprentice. AI-TR-354, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, December 1976.
• Brian Smith. Lisp: Language and Literature. Course materials, June 25, 1984. Includes Syllabus, Lecture Notes 1-17, Problem Sets 1-3, System Guide (for Dorado?), 3-LISP Primer, 3-LISP Reference Manual, SCHEME vs. 3-LISP: An Informal Comparison, The Computational Metaphor (Smith), Reflection and Semantics in LISP (Smith, and The Implementation of Procedurally Reflective Languages (des Rivières and Smith).

IV. Conference proceedings

• Advanced Papers of the Conference. Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Stanford University, California, International Joint Council on Artificial Intelligence, August 20-23, 1973, 703 pages.
• Preprints. ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages Conference, Los Angeles, California, June 1-3, 1978, 310 pages. Published as SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 13, Number 8, August 1978.
• Proceedings of the First International Workshop on LISP Evolution and Standardization, 22-23 February 1988, Paris, France. AFCET IOS, Amsterdam, 1988.
  
• Proceedings of the 1992 ACM Conference on LISP and Functional Programming, San Francisco, California, June 22-24, 1992, 357 pages. Published as LISP Pointers, Volume V, Number 1, January-March 1992.

V. Magazines and journals

• Computer. Volume 11, Number 5, May 1978. Special issue on Firmware Engineering. Includes this article: Edward R. Fiala. The Maxc Systems. [Maxc was a PDP-10 workalike designed and built at Xerox PARC to run PDP-10 software such as Interlisp and Pub.]
• BYTE : the small systems journal. Volume 4, Number 8, August 1979. Special issue on LISP, including articles by John Allen, Vaughan Pratt Richard Weyhrauch, and others.
• Computer. Volume 14, Number 4, IEEE, April 1981. Special issue on Programming Environments. Includes this article: Warren Teitelman and Larry Masinter. The Interlisp Programming Environment.
• Enjeux : le nouveau mensuel de la normalisation française. No. 88, Mars 1988. Special issue on LISP with articles by Genuys, Chailloux, Queinnec, Gabriel, Masinter, Pitman, and others. [in French]
• LISP Pointers, Volume 3, Number 2-3-4, April-June 1990, 44 pages.
  

VI. Books

• R. Kent Dybvig. The SCHEME Programming Language. Prentice-Hall Inc., 1987.
• Eero Hyvönen and Jouko Seppänen. LISP-Maailma : Johdatus kieleen ja ohjelmointiin. Kirjayhtymö, Helsinki, 1986.
• Stephen H. Kaisler. INTERLISP : The Language and its Usage. John Wiley and Sons, 1986.
  
• John A. Moyne. LISP: A First Language for Computing. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1991.
• Stephen Slade. The T Programming Language : A Dialect of LISP. Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1987.
• Guy L. Steele Jr. Common Lisp the Language. Digital Press, 1984. [Inscription on title page: To Larry Masinter with thanks for all your comments on early versions of Common Lisp. (signed) Guy Steele. The Stoyan collection also has a copy of this book, signed by Steele with thanks to Stoyan.]
• Guy L. Steele Jr. Common Lisp the Language. Digital Press, 1984. Japanese edition, by bit.
  
• Robert Wilensky. Common LISPcraft. W.W. Norton and Company,  New York, 1986.

VII. Miscellanea

• Photocopy of article from NIKKEI DATA PROCESSING (in Japanese) with picture of Larry Masinter demonstrating Interlisp D on a Dorado. [Note from Hiro Sato, FX Tokyo, to Larry Masinter.]
• Education Foundation of the Data Processing Management Association. AI Systems and Technologies. Announcement for seminar to be presented by Dr. Larry Masinter in Oslo, Paris, and London, February 1985. 4 pages.
• 8"x10" photograph of Larry Masinter seated at a workstation giving a demonstration at a trade show, undated.
  

• en·vōs Corporation. Background Information, August, 1988. Describes Ennvos, an employee-owned spin-off from Xerox Corporation.
• en·vōs Corporation. en·vōs Products At-A-Glance. August 1988. Describes en·vōs Software Development Environment and plans to sell productized applications initially developed by customers and/or theird-party developers using en·vōs tools and environments.
• en·vōs Corporation. Software Applications Catalog, August 1988, 108 pages. "The en·vōs Corporation Applications Catalog represents some of the innovative work by users of the en·vōs Software Development Environment."
  
• en·vōs Corporation. Consulting and Educational Services. Brochure, 24"x12", folded into four 6"x12" panels.
• en·vōs Corporation. ROOMS. Brochure, 24"x12", folded into four 6"x12" panels.
• en·vōs Corporation. In the Ancient Kingdom of AI, One Company Inherited the Crown Tools. Brochure, 28"x7", folded into four 7"x7" panels with cutouts.
  
• en·vōs Corporation. Beyond Windows: en·vōs Introduces New User Interface from Xerox PARC. Press Release, August 23, 1988. Describes ROOMS, a next-generation user interface for Sun Microsystems Sun-3 workstations.
• en·vōs Corporation. en·vōs Taps Teknowledge Exec for Engineering Vice President. Press Release, August 23, 1988. Announces appointment of Daniel Sagalowicz as Vice President, Development and Engineering.

• Integrated Inference Machines. The Art of Symbolic Computing. 6-page brochure, 1986.
  

• Lucid, Inc.. Why LISP? 20-page brochure, 3.75"x8.75", 1986.