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The names “Medley”, "Interlisp-D", “Interlisp.org”, “Common Lisp”, etc. are often used in confusing ways. We’re talking about a lot of different things that evolved over decades. These are cemented in by usage in different publications over time. We hope this glossary of terms will help.
The names “Medley,” "Interlisp-D," “Interlisp.org,” “Common Lisp,” etc. are often used in confusing ways. We’re talking about a lot of different things that evolved over decades. These are cemented in by usage in different publications over time. We hope this glossary of terms will help.

## Vocabulary and relationships

Alto Lisp
AltoLisp
: An (unsuccessful) attempt to build a Lisp-based OS for running Interlisp on an Alto.

Carol, Fugue, Harmony, Intermezzo, Koto, Lyric, Medley
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Starting with the Lyric release of Interlisp-D and then the Medley release, the implementation of Medley included implementations of Common Lisp (CLtL 1) as well as the Interlisp dialect in a single development environment; this was made possible by using the (Common Lisp) “package” feature to allow both dialects to be intermixed.

Dfasl
: A compiled form of Medley Interlisp files.
: A compiled form of Medley Interlisp files with the extension ".dfasl".

DLISP
: By Warren Teitelman: a first attempt at building a “Display” (GUI) with Interlisp running on Maxc (A PDP-10 clone) a Xerox Alto as a graphics terminal connected to it via Ethernet.
: By Warren Teitelman: a first attempt at building a “Display” (GUI) with Interlisp running on MAXC (a PDP-10 clone) connected by Ethernet to a Xerox Alto acting
as a graphics terminal.

Dorado Lisp
: The reimplementation of the AltoLisp microcode on the Dorado – a research prototype.
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: A book by Steve Kaisler which describes Interlisp of the 1970s & 80s.

Interlisp.org
: A “domain name”, used for some web sites and email addresses.
: The project's Internet domain name, used for its websites and email addresses.

- <https://interlisp.org> – the address of the main web site
- <https://online.interlisp.org> – the address of a service that lets you run Medley
- <info@interlisp.org> - an email address of a group that can respond to questions
- <info@interlisp.org> - the project's general information email address

Interlisp-10
: The first implementation of “Interlisp” for the DEC PDP-10 / Tenex.
: The first implementation of Interlisp for the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) PDP-10 / Tenex.

Interlisp-360
: Implemention of Interlisp for the IBM-360.
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configurations and micro-instructions.

Interlisp-VAX
: Implementation of Interlisp for Digitial Equipment Corporation VAX systems.

InterlispOrg
: A [California-registered](https://rct.doj.ca.gov/Verification/Web/Details.aspx?result=c7aa8cb2-16ec-458a-be56-41f963365258) non-profit organization (DBA Interlisp.org) Established
August 2021. 501c3 EIN 87-2528093 California registered charity CT0278267.
President Larry Masinter, Treasurer Ron Kaplan, Secretary Herb Jellinek.
: Implementation of Interlisp for Digital Equipment Corporation VAX systems.

Koto
: An obsolete named releases of Interlisp-D.
: An obsolete named release of Interlisp-D.

Lcom
: Used as a file ending, xxx.lcom, for compiled Medley files.

Lyric
: An obsolete named releases of Interlisp-D.
: An obsolete named release of Interlisp-D.

Medley
: The final named release of Interlisp-D.
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: At some point the name Interlisp-D was retired and Medley used to name the software.

Maiko
: An implementation of the functions of the microcode D-machine, but written in C for the
Sun Microsystems (RISC-like) SPARC processor workstation, initially developed by
: An implementation of the functions of the D-machine microcode, but written in C for the
Sun Microsystems SPARC processor workstation, initially developed by
Fuji Xerox. Subsequently ported to little-endian processors and other operating systems.

SDL
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### Organizations

BBN
: Boston consultancy which (late 60s) implemented BBN Lisp and the Tenex operating system.
: [Bolt, Beranek, and Newman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raytheon_BBN), a Cambridge, Mass. consulting firm which sponsored the
creation of BBN Lisp, Interlisp's immediate ancestor, as well as the Tenex operating system.

Xerox PARC or just PARC
: Palo Alto Research Center, which continued in collaboration with BBN on (renamed) Interlisp. PARC developed the Alto and Dorado. Now part of SRI International.

SRI International
: non-profit scientific R & D institute.
: A non-profit scientific R & D institute, headquertered in Menlo Park, California.

Xerox Electro-Optical Systems (XEOS)
: Xerox division supporting classified customers.
: A former Xerox division supporting government customers.

Xerox Artificial Intelligence Systems (XAIS)
: The division working to commercialize Xerox Workstations running Interlisp-D.
: The former Xerox division working to commercialize Xerox workstations running Interlisp-D.

Rank Xerox
: Xerox affiliate in charge of delivering Interlisp-D workstations in Europe.
: Xerox's European subsidiary, a joint venture of Xerox Corp. and the Rank Organization, which sold Interlisp-D workstations in Europe.

Fuji Xerox
: Xerox affiliate – joint project of Rank Xerox and Fuji Photo Film company.
: Xerox's Japanese subsidiary, owned jointly by Rank Xerox and Fujifilm Corp,, responsible for selling and supporting Interlisp-D systems in Japan.
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Envos
: Company founded in 198x to take on the Lisp business from Xerox. Closed within 10 months and folded back to Xerox.
: Company founded in 198x to take on the Lisp business from Xerox. Closed within 10 months and folded back into Xerox.

Venue
: Smaller company, started by John Sybalsky; it had the license to create and distribute derivative works of Maiko and Medley Venue ceased operations… … some history …. Software recovered from late 90s…. Fuji Xerox worked with John into the 90s with ports and addons and other software….
: Company founded by John Sybalsky, former Xerox and Envos employee, which obtained a license to create and distribute derivative works of Maiko and Medley.

Medley Interlisp Project
: Began late 2010’s with Nick Briggs getting Maiko to run on MacOS.
In earnest in 2020 with start of weekly Zoom meetings, getting it to run on Linux in a VM and getting the Interlisp and LispCore google groups and ….
: Began late 2010’s with Nick Briggs getting Maiko to run on macOS. The group expanded and began holding weekly online meetings in 2020.
Subsequently ported Maiko (and therefore Medley) to Linux, Windows, and other operating system. Maintains a mailing list for developers and interested users,
sponsors the maintenance of an exhaustive bibliography and the very website where you're reading this.

InterlispOrg
: A [California-registered](https://rct.doj.ca.gov/Verification/Web/Details.aspx?result=c7aa8cb2-16ec-458a-be56-41f963365258) non-profit organization (DBA Interlisp.org) Established
August 2021. 501c3 EIN 87-2528093 California registered charity CT0278267.
The Board of Directors consists of Larry Masinter, President; Ron Kaplan, Treasurer; and Herb Jellinek, Secretary.