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From: smr@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Samual Rushing)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme.c
Subject: MIT Scheme & mc68000 code from the Compiler.
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Date: 16 Aug 90 00:27:48 GMT
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I am interested in porting the MIT Scheme system to the Amiga home
computer.  A few of us Amiga fanatics have just ported GCC, and we can
now use it to port other software that until now has been untouchable
with the available C compilers .  We've compiled most of the microcode
with no problems (except the unix.c file, which will take some work),
so I'm pretty sure the interpreter could be made to work. 

It would be very nice if we could support compiled code on generic
Amiga's with 68000's.  Can the Scheme compiler produce plain 68000
code, and do 68881 stuff in software?  From what code I've looked 
through in the 7.0 distribution, it seems there are only two machine
configurations supported: Vax and 68020 & 68881.  Will this require
work - and has it been done already?  Am I going to have to upgrade
to an '020 or '030 Amiga?

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smr@beach.cis.ufl.edu				    rushing@titan.ksc.nasa.gov