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Re: ports away from the VAX. I think the effort for porting the interpreter to anything running BSD was minimal. (Just fixing the usual Berkeley non-portability bugs, the code was all C and Lisp and supposedly not machine dependent). Certainly Pyramid was distributing a working port to their 90X in 1984. For the Liszt compiler, some more effort was required as the compiler back end needed retargetting to any different machine code or assembler. But Pyramid also had that working in 1984. BSD was being commercialised by quite a few vendors in that era, and i guess several of them would have done Franz ports. 198.142.19.219 (talk) 14:03, 13 February 2009 (UTC)