Ghenis.pasa@XEROX.ARPA (02/19/86)
Don't bother with XLISP 1.2 under CP/M. It is simply too big and it doesn't make sense to try to run it since it leaves practically no space for lists. I received a similar warning a few months ago and still went ahead (I had to convince myself). It is so bad that after starting XLISP 1.2 all you can do is 5 or 6 conses or appends using small lists before you get an 'out of memory' error message, so it is truly USELESS (under CP/M that is). XLISP keeps getting bigger (and better) and any version after 1.1 is really meant to be used on an MS-DOS system with a lot of memory. If you must have a PD LISP for CP/M, use XLISP 1.1, which is smaller and will leave you some more room to play around. It is less standard than later versions, with a C flavor, but it will manipulate lists for you.