The Pitmanual presents not just technical data, but also offers (carefully separated) stylistic advice, something that was in short supply especially at that time. And, finally, the manuals differ in personality. The introduction of “New I/O” and the emergence of “Software File Arrays” (SFAs) are highly visible examples. Also, because a number of years had passed between the writing of these two manuals, The Pitmanual was able to capture descriptions of a lot of that. The many differences between these machines and their associated operating systems reflected themselves as quite visible differences between the dialects that ran on the two machines. The Moonual had focused heavily on Multics Maclisp, while The Pitmanual was heavily oriented toward the PDP-10. How do The Pitmanual and the Moonual differ? Carrette who insisted that The Revised Maclisp Manual needed a cute little shorthand name like the Moonual, and who started calling it The Pitmanual. So I gave this document a slightly different name to allow Moon's older document to continue to be named unambiguously. It has always bothered me when a newer document takes the name of an earlier document it feels like historical revisionism. The Moonual served as an important reference when creating this document, but this document was substantially different in presentational style, content, and scope. Moon's Maclisp Manual, informally and affectionately referred to by the lisp community at MIT as the Moonual. It was preceded by another document, David A. The original of this document was called The Revised Maclisp Manual. Why is this document called the Revised Maclisp manual? MACLISP ran on the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) PDP-10 series (DEC10 and DEC20) machines under various operating systems, and on the Honeywell 6180/6880 under Multics. Founded in 1963, more than two decades before the 1984 rollout of Apple Macintosh computers, Project MAC had nothing to do with the Apple 'Mac'. Project MAC was named for its conceptual relationship with “Multiple Access Computers” and “Machine-Aided Cognition”. MACLISP was developed at and named in honor of MIT's Project MAC, later known as the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS), which eventually became part of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Why is the language called MACLISP? Does it run on the Macintosh?

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