Maryland lisp on Pyramid distributions

[Mark Weiser]

We recently received mail from a Pyramid customer who, as part of
a recent software upgrade from Pyramid, received in an unsupported
software directory a partial copy of the Maryland Lisp distribution.
This customer sent us a bunch of questions about how to install it,
use it, etc.  Only problem is, Pyramid does not have a license from us
to redistribute our Lisp.  In fact, according to our records, Pyramid
does not even have a license from us to internally use our lisp.
Needless to say, we are a bit perturbed at this.

Of course, the silly part of it all is that the Maryland Lisp distribution
lives on top of a Franz in which we changed the C code to better support
efficient flavors.  This code is NOT included in the distribution (the C
part of Franz I believe is quite different on the Pyramid from Vaxen),
and so the whole inclusion of the Maryland Lisp stuff is just a waste of
disk/tape space.  It doesn't work, cannot be easily made to work, on
the Pyramids.

We would appreciate hearing from any folks out there with  a directory
called something like um-lisp in their unsupported software directory,
to get an idea of whether this was an isolated incident, or Pyramid
has now stuck our 12M of useless (to them) code on every new software
distribution.  Thanks.
-mark
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