Was there malloc in 1959? How did they implement the first Lisp interpreter on IBM 704?

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How did they implement allocate a new cons cell?

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Lisp (historically LISP) is a family of programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized prefix notation. Originally specified in 1958, Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language. Only Fortran is older, by one year.

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Was there malloc in 1959? How did they implement the first Lisp interpreter on IBM 704?

Was there malloc in 1959? How did they implement the first Lisp interpreter on IBM 704?