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From: haible@laplace.ilog (Bruno Haible)
Subject: Re: Why is Lisp not more widely used?
In-Reply-To: Blake McBride's message of 16 Aug 1995 01:26:40 GMT
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Date: 21 Aug 1995 16:11:01 GMT

Blake McBride <blake@edge.net> writes:

   GCC doesn't really support Windows 3.1, NT 3.x or '95.  It's just
   good for command line utilities.

That's not true. Even the statement "GCC doesn't support Windows 3.1" is not
true. There is a package named `rsxwdk' (Windows development kit with RSX)
available via ftp which, together with emx+gcc, lets you build Windows 3.1
32-bit binaries. The package is certainly not beta software, but with some
fighting (yes!) it is possible to build CLISP binaries which run under
MS-Windows 3.1 (not DOS box).


Bruno Haible                                     email: <haible@ilog.fr>
Software Engineer                                phone: +33-1-49083585
