TR-10                                                            March 1981








                  THE PORTABLE STANDARD LISP USERS MANUAL
                  THE PORTABLE STANDARD LISP USERS MANUAL
                  THE PORTABLE STANDARD LISP USERS MANUAL


                                    BY
                                    BY
                                    BY
                    THE UTAH SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION GROUP
                    THE UTAH SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION GROUP
                    THE UTAH SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION GROUP



                      Department of Computer Science
                            University of Utah
                        Salt Lake City, Utah 84112



                       Version 3.1: 7 February 1983








                                 ABSTRACT
                                 ABSTRACT
                                 ABSTRACT


This  manual  describes  the  primitive  data  structures,  facilities  and
functions present in the Portable Standard LISP (PSL) system.  It describes
the implementation details and functions of interest to a  PSL  programmer.
Except  for  a  small  number  of hand-coded routines for I/O and efficient
function  calling,  PSL  is   written   entirely   in   itself,   using   a
machine-oriented  mode  of  PSL, called SYSLISP, to perform word, byte, and
efficient integer and string operations.  PSL is compiled  by  an  enhanced
version  of  the  Portable LISP Compiler, and currently runs on the DEC-20,
VAX, and MC68000.




  Copyright (c) 1982   W. Galway, M. L. Griss, B. Morrison, and B. Othmer


Work supported in part by  the  National  Science  Foundation  under  Grant
Numbers MCS80-07034 and MCS82-04247.
