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Timo Noko's NokoLisp: Bare-Metal Lisp on the HP Omnigo 700LX
When Noko lost his job in Nokia Corporation in 1990, Nokia renamed Nokolisp to "Nykylisp" and totally owned it, and now somebody else claims to be the sole author. Working Nokolisp Intepreter/Compiler for Msdos is here.
The first implementation was made, with very little knowledge or experience, in the Nova-1200-like computer which had 16 kilowords of core memory and a paper tape punch for mass storage. Noko had no knowledge of lambda calculus at the time, but he had rudimentary comprehension of Prolog-like pattern matching and thus the language was formally described as follows: The highest bit in 16bit word causes memory controller itself to make new access in 15-bit address space.
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