Altair 8800 Lisp

Lisp is great, and so is the Altair 8800. Why not combine pleasures?

Systems programming is a fascinating exercise, but doing so on modern computers is difficult. Early personal computers such as the Apple II or Altair 8800 are much more accessible targets. Combining this with our recent interest in Lisp, we have decided to implement a dialect of Lisp on an Altair. We hope to use this project to gain a greater understanding and appreciation of each.

For our implementation, we will be using the Altair configuration most readily available to us: the Altair-Duino. Ours has one SIO, two 2SIOs, an ACR, and a full 64K RAM with no ROMs mapped.

• ghosthamlet/awesome-lisp-machine
• hausdorff/turtles: a Lisp implementation for the Apple II
• Let's Run Lisp on a Microcontroller, Dmitry Frank'
• Tiny Lisp Computer
• uLisp