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- Subject: Re: CMUCL for A/UX
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- Date: 5 Sep 92 01:16:02 GMT
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- From: mbp@generali.harvard.edu (Mark B Palmerino)
-
- Has anyone gone through the trouble of getting CMUCL to work on a machine
- running A/UX (Apple's Unix)? I'm looking at that daunting task and am
- hoping that others have already paved the way.
-
- Porting CMU CL to the Motorola 680x0 processor of the Macintosh would be a
- big job, and probably not worth the trouble since (a) Apple already sells a
- good Common Lisp for the Mac, (b) Apple's Common Lisp has been optimized
- for the small memory size of most Macs, while CMU CL is big, (c) the
- 68K-based Macintoshes may not be with us for too many more years. If you
- just did a straightforward port, and didn't try to reorganize the system to
- make it small, a Macintosh port would still take you several months full
- time. And that's if you're *very* good.
-
- I don't know much about A/UX, but if it doesn't support mapping of
- arbitrary files into memory and provide you with several widely separated
- segments in virtual memory, that could be trouble as well. Add several
- more months in that case.
-
- If you still want to go for this, let us know. We'll give you what advice
- we can.
-
- -- Scott
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