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From: alms@cambridge.apple.com (Andrew L. M. Shalit)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Apple CL incompatible with Radius accelorater
Message-ID: <ALMS.89Oct20163158@brazil.cambridge.apple.com>
Date: 20 Oct 89 20:31:58 GMT
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In-reply-to: chewy@apple.com's message of 20 Oct 89 16:58:51 GMT

In article <4812@internal.Apple.COM> chewy@apple.com (Paul Snively) writes:

   In article <856woodl@yvax.byu.edu> woodl@yvax.byu.edu writes:
   >      I just installed a Radius 16 mhz accelorater board in my SE and
   > find that
   > Apple Allegro CL will not boot.  I get the bomb!, error=11.  So far, 
   > Radius blames Apple, and I haven't received a reply back from my
   > AppleLink query to Apple.  I don't suppose anyone out there has had any
   > experience?  Any ideas would be appreciated.

   Yup, it's our problem.  Put this patch in your INIT.LISP file:

   [spurious patch deleted]

Whoops.  The patch which Paul posted will not fix the Radius bug.

Radius boards sans FPU do not generate FTRAPs correctly.  MACL depends
on correct FTRAP behavior (this lets us generate object code which
runs on a variety of Macs).  We're in the process of trying to get in
touch with someone at Radius so we can fix this problem.

In the meantime, getting an FPU may help.

   -andrew