Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!haven!umd5!umd5.umd.edu!anderson From: anderson@sapir.cog.jhu.edu (Stephen R. Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Lisp on NeXT? Message-ID: Date: 31 Oct 90 01:30:51 GMT References: <275@autodesk.UUCP> Sender: news@umd5.umd.edu Distribution: comp Organization: Dept. of Cognitive Science, The Johns Hopkins University Lines: 17 In-reply-to: anderson@sapir.cog.jhu.edu's message of 30 Oct 90 20:27:46 GMT Just one small postscript to my earlier posting about Franz ACL. There seems to be some confusion about whether educational customers can still get ACL free. At least as far as I understand it, only those who already have it as part of NeXT release 1.0 can (potentially) get a free upgrade to ACL 4.0. Those who buy a new machine are welcome to buy ACL from Franz, but they are NOT going to get it (either 3.x or 4.0) for free. I must say that one potential advantage from (my) buying a NeXT machine instead of, say, a Sun IPC is negated by the fact that I'll have to pay the same price for ACL to run on either machine, and (possibly because of the NeXT community's dislike of X) Franz is apparently uninterested in porting Composer to NeXT. So far, I haven't seen a lot of reason to believe that people take the NeXT seriously as a lisp platform. Steve Anderson