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- From: welch@sacral.cis.ohio-state.edu (Arun Welch)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.xerox
- Subject: Re: Just what is one of these XeroxLisp beasts?
- Message-ID: <WELCH.92Nov10134502@sacral.cis.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 18:45:02 GMT
- References: <1992Nov10.162657.10598@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- In-Reply-To: jg@cl.cam.ac.uk's message of 10 Nov 92 16: 26:57 GMT
- Originator: welch@sacral.cis.ohio-state.edu
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- In article <1992Nov10.162657.10598@infodev.cam.ac.uk> jg@cl.cam.ac.uk (Jim Grundy) writes:
-
- Seems I have the opertunity to get my hands on some oldish Xerox lisp machine.
- The question is - do I want to?
-
- Maybe. If all you want is a tty-based interface to your theorem prover
- then you might be better off with something else, as maintaining one
- of these machines is getting harder and harder.
-
- I'd like to run a version a theorem prover called HOL on it - which is
- is written in a version of ML which is written in common lisp.
-
- Sounds like the time I brought up Xlisp in the PC emulator... :-).
- Don't expect any staggering speed from something like this.
-
- Sounds good so far. Only thing is I'm told that the machine in question
- has no software one it - just lisp, and a structure editor for lisp.
-
-
- There's a text editor called Tedit included with the base software
- distribution, which you might want to hunt around for. It's intended
- more as a wysiwyg desktop publishing kinda thing, so it's not really
- much fun editing code with it.
-
- And these are not even the latest versions.
-
- I'd be more concerned with this statement, though. Earlier versions of
- the software only ran Interlisp-D, and not Common Lisp. You need at
- least they Lyric release, which is the point at which CL was added to
- the system. If you're running Koto or something earlier you're SOL.
-
- ...arun
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- Arun Welch
- Lisp Systems Programmer, Lab for AI Research, Ohio State University
- welch@cis.ohio-state.edu
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