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From: ken@gvax.cs.cornell.edu (Ken Birman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.isis
Subject: Re: ISIS on Symbolics?
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Date: 13 Sep 90 23:00:37 GMT
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In article <1990Sep13.143642.18862@swbatl.sbc.com>
	gilstrap@aslan.sbc.com (Brian Gilstrap) writes:
>Is there an implementation of ISIS for Symbolics machines (hopefully done
>in Common Lisp)?  I need to get a non-Lisp (e.g. Unix) environment talking
>to a Symbolics CL environment.

Unfortunately, a port to the Symbolics would require a complete
rewrite of ISIS in Lisp, unlike our common-lisp ports, which make
use of foreign-function facilities built into Lucid and Allegro
Common Lisp.

So, no luck on this.  Around here, people use SUN RPC, but my wife
(who has a lot of experience on this) says the Symbolics side performance
is terrible unless you put a lot of effort into tuning.

Hopefully, someone will someday do a decent UNIX version of Lisp with
an environment approaching the Symbolics one.  If so, and if it has
a foreign function interface, we'll get ISIS to work from it.

Ken