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From: chewy@apple.com (Paul Snively)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Determining the machine type
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Date: 5 Dec 89 22:59:49 GMT
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In article <995@zip.eecs.umich.edu> arie@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Arie 
Covrigaru) writes:
> How can I get the fact that I am running on a Mac in Allegro CL?
> when I evaluate (machine-type) I get unknown back.  Is this something
> that is fixed in version 1.3?

For you MACL fans out there...

"Unknown" is pretty much what I would expect for MACL prior to 1.3 running 
on, say, a Macintosh IIci or Portable.  I believe that this is fixed in 
1.3 and later versions of MACL (Macintosh Allegro Common Lisp).

BTW, before the flamethrowers start: this is information that might be 
considered useful by a wide variety of Macintosh Allegro Common Lisp 
users, which is why I'm posting rather than mailing the response.  Before 
any accusations that this is devolving into a MACL support board rather 
than a Lisp newsgroup, bear in mind that there are many occassions where a 
specific request for information regarding a particular implementation is 
posted here, so if you intend to flame MACL questions/answers, at least be 
consistent and also flame UNIX Allegro questions, Lucid questions, 
AKCL/IBCL questions, etc. :-)  Thanks!

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