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From: <bhunter@cat.bbsr.edu> (Bill Hunter)
Subject: Re: Suggestion for Lisp development system?
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Date: Thu, 08 Jun 1995 12:17:26 GMT
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"David B. Lamkins" <dlamkins@teleport.com> wrote:

>Personally, I find NT to be a very solid OS -- no qualifiers needed.  Franz
>makes a version of ACL that will run under NT.  I don't think it shares a
>common heritage with their Unix product.

I second the motion.  NT on a 90 Mhz Pentium with 32 Mb RAM and a 21"
monitor provides a very adequate development platform.  By the way,
don't even bother with DOS-Windows 3.1 for ACL - stack sizes will be
limited to 128kb (for compatibility with any 8088 users, I suppose :-)


One caveat - the built in editor is limited to 32 kb of text.  When I
got ACL, Franz's solution was to bundle Pearl WinEmacs as part of the
package, but I have yet to get it o work reliably.

>It doesn't sound like you're in a big hurry, so you may want to wait for
>Digitool (http:\\www.digitool.com) to finish porting MCL to run native on
>PowerPC Macs -- MCL is the most polished Lisp implementation I've seen on
>stock hardware.

Reluctantly agree.  Only reluctant because I don't really have the
option of using a Mac/ PowerPC now.  My old Mac II (68020, 8 Mb, 40 Mb
HD) ran MCL admirably; I assume the PowerPC port will behave
similarly.


>Dave
>http://www.teleport.com/~dlamkins
>---
>CPU Cycles: Use them now, while you still have them.






