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From: barr@pineapple.bbn.com (Hunter Barr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Lucid to Oracle connection
Summary: I suggest you get the Symbolics UX400S.
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Date: 23 Aug 89 17:23:58 GMT
References: <64385@linus.UUCP>
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In article <64385@linus.UUCP> bds@mbunix (Smith) writes:
>
>If anyone has developed a Lucid to Oracle interface, I wonder if you
>would be willing to share some of your discoveries with us.  We've
>been working on this for a while now, and although we can make it
>work, the solution is very kludgy.  Neither Lucid nor Oracle are much
>help in this.

... Lisp/C interfaces and Unix kludges, too painful to repeat...

>Barry Smith
>bds@mbunix.mitre.org
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Have you tried the Symbolics co-processor in your Suns?  The Symbolics
TCP/IP implementation is, of course, very straightforward to use from
Lisp.  If you are tied to Lucid, well... you have my sympathy-- I
support a Lucid implementation of my stuff too.
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                            HUNTER