The July 1985 issue of Computer Language magazine reviewed a dozen Lisp implementations for MS-DOS.
It's a good overview of the state of Lisp on microcomputers in the mid 1980s, the years of the early work that led to ANSI Common Lisp. I knew only a few of these implementations. Interestingly, some of the Lisps were based on Interlisp and featured structure editors.
@amoroso amazing stuff. I was pretty struck with this advert for commercial CCA emacs, which has a trademark symbol against 'elisp' 🤯 which they say is 'common lisp based' - I've never used any of the emacs from this family, so no idea what their lisp was like in use.
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