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From: randy@bcsaic.UUCP (Randy Groves)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: McCauley Software Common LISP
Message-ID: <9427@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: 29 Dec 88 00:47:38 GMT
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In article <958@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> pmy@vivaldi.acc.Virginia.EDU.acc.Virginia.EDU (Pete Yadlowsky) writes:
>In article <9384@bcsaic.UUCP> randy@bcsaic.UUCP I wrote:
>>In article <8812201450.AA10061@decwrl.dec.com> art@teach.dec.com (Think the UNTHINKABLE) writes:
>>>	TI
>>>	will soon be releasing a LISP board for the Mac II.  I love my Amiga
>>>	dearly, and I wish that it's potential as a cheap/powerful development 
>>>	tool for AI applications would be recognized.
>>>
>>Already released, in fact.  Been out for at least a year.
>
>C'mon, don't just drop something like this and run. What is it?
>Who makes it? How does it work? How many $$$?
>Lawd a'mercy, such a tease you are!   :-)
>

I hope you didn't construe my note to mean that there was a board for Amiga.
Only the MAC as far as I know.  There are plans for other platforms on both
sides of the spectrum (pricewise) from the MAC.

There are two boards available.  One is made by TI, using their ExplorerII
chip.  To uprade a MACII costs about $15,000.  There is also another board
made by Symbolics for the MAC, that utilizes their Ivory chip.  To upgrade
a MACII costs from $11K to $18K, depending on whether you want just the 
Ivory board or the board plus a 300M disk drive.

Both these prices are for a stripped-down delivery machine.  For development,
you can spend more, starting about $20K more.

I would love to have either of those companies build a board for the Amiga,
but the market is not big enough yet, and the Lisp Machine market is even
smaller.

This discussion is really not right for this newsgroup, if it goes any
further, so please e-mail or follow-up to comp.sys.mac.


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