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From: moose@svc.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Rumors aren't rumors anymore
Message-ID: <1990Sep13.164117.11003@svc.portal.com>
Date: 13 Sep 90 16:41:17 GMT
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In article <Sep.9.22.30.13.1990.14033@porthos.rutgers.edu> marsella@porthos.rutgers.edu (Stacy Marsella) writes:
>(Oh no, this is a nightmare...  EVEN our MACII's have a decent common lisp-
> originally Coral's Allegro Common Lisp now under the Apple aegis)
>
>We too relied on having Common Lisp on our NeXT machine. Without it,
>we are severely restricted and can no longer run our AI system on the
>NeXT. Ports to other languages or even other dialects of lisp are
>simply not plausible at this juncture. Without Common Lisp (preferably
>Franz's), we will have to move completely to our SPARC'S.
>
>marsella@cogsci-1.rutgers.edu

Give me a break!!!

Are you now claiming that your MACII's come bundled with common lisp?
Nobody said you could not get LISP for it, just that you aren't forced to pay
for it if you don't want it.  If you are basing your entire platform on what
bundled software comes with the machine, you have some serious problems.




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