I am interested in finding a copy to use in emulation (hardware eventually). I believe 3.1 was available. If anyone has a copy, let me know how much you'd want for it. I enjoy working in lisp and this would be a neat way to do so.
As well as Franz Allegro, there exists the following Lisps for NEXTSTEP:
- GNU Common Lisp (clisp)
- GNU Common Lisp (gcl)
- Kyoto Common Lisp (kcl)*
- Austin-Kyoto Common Lisp (akcl)*
I could have sworn I saw CMU Common Lisp for NeXT somewhere once, too.
There are probably some working Scheme implementations, too.
I think T and NIL were ported to NeXT, too -- though not sure about NIL, I've seen m68k images for T.
I also think xlisp and EuLisp/EuScheme are also available, but don't quote me on that.
Macsyma (well, Maxima -- derived from an older DOE version of Macsyma) works with GCL, too.
Oh, and Franz Lisp can also be compiled with some non-trivial hackery, but the compiler will probably be useless because Mach-O is not a.out.
* I can't remember if these are pre-CLtL2. I think they are, so if you toy with them, treat the HyperSpec with a pinch of salt.
I was curious about the Allegro version. I'm trying to get the install/build working again just for the giggle factor.
For any real hackery these days I'm using the open-sourced Medley Interlisp version that is out (
http://interlisp.org) & builds easily on modern UNIX, might not be too hard to get running on NextStep but I'll stick to running it on my Linux Mint laptop instead.
Yeah, looks like Medley still has some m68k stuff knocking about in its source code, too -- could be interesting to hack it up to run on NEXTSTEP with Display PostScript.
Though, I don't really get along with Interlisp-D on account of me being a Symbolics fanboy ;D (just kidding, I remember hacking the crap out of the LFG Medley image on an UltraSPARC, messing with Xerox Common Lisp etc)
I would like to spend some time hacking up Franz Lisp on NEXTSTEP some day, would give me an excuse to dust off the olde LISPcraft (
https://www.amazon.co.uk/LISPcraft-R-Wilensky/dp/0393954420) book, and maybe have some MacLisp and/or Lisp Machine Lisp stuff going on.