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From: jsaxon@cs.tamu.edu (James B Saxon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Rumors aren't rumors anymore
Summary: Don't look for Franz in the bundle...  NO CONTRACTS
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Date: 8 Sep 90 09:16:35 GMT
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That's right folks, it's no longer a rumor.  If you liked using
Allegro Common Lisp and even PCL on the NeXT, you`d better stay with
system 1.0(a) because you're not going to get to see Allegro Common
Lisp in any bundle in the near future...  Furthermore NeXT has no
contracts with Franz as it now stands for system 2.0 at all.  To put
it simply, it's not economic for Franz to bend over backwards to work
with NeXT.  If NeXT were to make the deal more comfortable though...

If you want Lisp on the NeXT, you'd better start complaining to NeXT
because the ball's in their court.  I've been told that Max  Henry may
be able to help out.  He works at NeXT.

Tallye Ho!








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