Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!uwm.edu!bionet!arisia!roo!mdixon From: mdixon@parc.xerox.com (Mike Dixon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Lisp on NeXT? Message-ID: Date: 28 Oct 90 19:51:59 GMT References: <275@autodesk.UUCP> Sender: news@parc.xerox.com Distribution: comp Organization: Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 20 In-reply-to: glang@Autodesk.COM's message of 27 Oct 90 16:59:11 GMT >Was ACL dropped because nobody uses the NeXT for lisp programming? I somehow have this feeling that the fact that Apple bought Allegro soon after the bundling arrangement was announced has something to do with this. not even close. the "allegro CL" that runs on macs was developed by a company called Coral; these are the people that apple bought. the "allegro CL" that runs on NeXTs (and Suns, and various other unix boxes) was developed by a company called Franz. a couple of years ago Coral and Franz seem to have thought it would be a good marketing move to give their products the same name, so that they could appear to offer an integrated product that ran on both macs & unix boxes. there doesn't seem to have been any other interaction between the two companies. (as far as i know they continue to develop their respective products completely independently.) -- .mike.