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From: phinely@Hawaii.Edu (Peter Hinely)
Subject: Re: Apple Dylan Technology Release
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Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 01:27:27 GMT
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In article <31912031.607@hnc.com>, Michael Pyle  <mpp@hnc.com> wrote:
>I've been browsing around cambridge site looking for information about 
>the Apple Dylan Technology Release, but I can't seem to find anything 
>that goes beyond the initial release in November. Does anyone know the 
>current state of the Apple development environment? Things like what is 
>the current release? Is it PowerMac native? Is it an on going project or 
>has it been killed?
>

The Apple Dylan TR is available from the APDA for $39.95 plus shipping. 
For your money you get the Apple Dylan TR CD-ROM and a large stack of
manuals. Getting the Apple Dylan TR out the door was the Apple Cambridge
team's last move before the group was disbanded by Apple management.  The
development environment is not PowerPC-native, though it can generate
PPC-native executables.  The development environment (which was written in
Macintosh Common Lisp) needs 24MB of RAM at a minimum and is agonizingly
slow, especially on Power Macs.  The executables produced perform pretty
decently, except for their slow start-up time.  Digitool (developers of
Macintosh Common Lisp) has been contracted by Apple to make the Dylan
development PPC-native, but Dylan is essentially dead at Apple.  CMU and
Harlequin are continuing their Dylan projects.  Apple has announced they
are going to support Java (including built-in support in their OS.)


