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From: lacsap@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Pascal Chesnais)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: 2.0 - CommonLisp and Frame - 040
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Date: 12 Dec 90 21:15:41 GMT
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Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
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We just got a 2.0 distribution disk, we scrubbed disks and layed down
the new OS.  We copied allegro and frame onto the system.  Ran upgrade
frame package, and tried rebuilding CL.  CL did not build ld claiming
that there is a cputype mismatch! Frame starts and promptly crashes
with a DPS error...

Has anyone hand massage these two things into running on their 2.0
systems?  I would be pretty angry to find out we have to wait a while
before we get upgrades...

MIT received some 040 nextstations but no 040 upgrades.  NextStation
is wicked fun!  However several things to piss some people off:

- incredibly short monitor cable, if you want a long one, see if you can
order the Cube starting point kit instead

- keyboard layout has changed!!!  They made the return key bigger, inverted
L shape, and moved the key above it |\ to the number keypad... Which
you can all imagine how annoying it is when you want to do a lot of
pipes or do C programming...  A real lose if you ask me... I bet the
response you get from NeXT about this one is "We had a lot of customers
asking for a bigger Return key", yet they probably did not poll a lot of
people about the wisdom of moving the | key on a Unix workstation.  Oh the
keyboard has symbols instead of words like "shift", "tab"...  the bug
is that the delete and back arrow keys are the same symbol!!!

I still like the machines, hope someone can help with the above problems (CL
and Frame) so we can upgrade the other 1.0 machines... If you got it work
using 2.0 upgrade app let me know too!

pasc

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Pascal Chesnais, Research Specialist, Electronic Publishing Group
Media Laboratory, E15-348, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Ma, 02139 (617) 253-0311
email: lacsap@plethora.media.mit.edu (NeXT)