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Did I have Nokolisp running on Atari Portfolio in 1989? No recollection of anykind. Must have been, because why not?

But I had very serious floating point computing needs, because GPS was not yet invented. I managed to install Turbo Pascal in it and steal someones Nautical Almanac - algorithms.




Github seems to agree there where at least some *.LSP - files in Portfolio, doing god knows what. https://github.com/timonoko/sextant


My Guess: SEX.LSP seems like an attempt to Lispify the SEX.PAS file, by utilizing Turbo Pascal's floating point capabilities.


Wasn't the Atari Portfolio used by John Connor in the Terminator movie to hack that ATM?


Fake. The ribbon connector was not connected to anything. It was just snot-glued on the back of the display. All I/O was on separate modules directly connected to CPU bus.




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