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From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
Subject: Re: CMU/CL in Rhapsody
Message-ID: <1997Mar6.091624.6036@wavehh.hanse.de>
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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 97 09:16:24 GMT
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vrotney@netcom.com (William Paul Vrotney) writes:

>I haven't been playing around with CMU/CL lately.  I was wondering what
>people though of porting CML/CL to the upcoming Rhapsody.  Difficulties?
>Potential?  Work in Progress?

>Rhapsody will be the first NeXTSTEP (Unix) based Mac OS.  Presumably running
>the new (now faster cheaper and cooler than Pentium) PowerPC.

Porting to a new processor is a major effort, although the PowerPC
might reuse code from the old PC/RT port. I watched the x86 effort and
can honestly say it took a real wizard to glue things together. The
number of people involved was irrelevant, the thing took up on the
base of one individual's restlessness :-)

Porting to a new OS is easier, I heard someone is already approaching
the BSD server on NeXTStep/Intel.

The mailing list archives of the x86 port effort are a must-read for
anyone interestedt in this. See http://www.cons.org/cmucl/

Martin
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