E.g., it lets you type things like :ld foo to load a file, :exit to quit Lisp, and so on.
Peder Klingenberg? has written a similar thing, at http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~pok/download/commands.lisp and there's an ACL-compatible REPL for SBCL included in the contrib directory.
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