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From: caroma@ai.mit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Allegro Lisp
Summary: AI Expert mag. reports it will be bundled with 2.0
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Date: 30 Nov 90 23:10:42 GMT
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I thought the consensus was that Allegro Common Lisp was no longer to be
bundled, but now I see this:

Taken from AI Expert magazine, Dec 1990, p 66, w/out permission:

    Allegro CL for Next

    Franz, inc., the Berkeley, Calif. LISP company, announced that its
    Allegro Common LISP v. 3.1 will be included with v. 2.0 of the Next
    system software for Nextstation and Nextcube computers.  Franz also
    introduced an Allegro CL run-time option for applications on Next
    platforms.
      Allegro CL is an object-oriented development tool featuring incre-
    mental compliation and debugging facilities.  The new run-time
    option is a version of Allegro CL without development features such
    as the compiler and debugger.
      Allegro CL v. 3.1 for Next is available from Franz for $1,500;
    Allegro CL v. 4.0 will be ported to Next in 1991.  For more
    information, contact Franz Inc., 1995 University Ave., Berkeley,
    Calif. 94704, (415) 548-3600.

Anybody (e.g. locals) figured out what's really going on here?

Another question: How does this environment compare to, say, Coral's
Common lisp for the Mac, now distributed by Apple?  (I heard a rumor
that it ran about 30 times slower...)  Is it well integrated with the
NeXT?  Is it a LispM-like environment?

Thanks,

caroma@ai.mit.edu