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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp.franz
Subject: Re: Franz Lisp for Sun Sparcs Station running sun OS4.1
Message-ID: <3900@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 4 Jan 91 19:05:39 GMT
References: <28532@usc> <1918@paradigm.com> <BZS.90Dec21201025@world.std.com>
Reply-To: jeff@aiai.UUCP (Jeff Dalton)
Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
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In article <BZS.90Dec21201025@world.std.com> bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
>
>As one of the people who worked on the Sun3 port of Franz I'd say the
>attack I would take at this point would be looking at how hard it
>would be to get franz (liszt actually) to generate C code. At that
>point it would port to all sorts of systems more quickly. Hand coded C
>subrs are pretty well defined if you look at the code, and that's what
>you want to generate in liszt.

I have a Liszt that generates C, but I haven't wanted to do all the
other things (loader, losing C code in Franz, etc) to make Franz work
on the SPARC.  The Liszt works on Sun 3, VAX, and (the original
reason) on a Perq running PNX, so it is likely to be sufficiently
portable.

So if anyone is seriously interested in doing a SPARC port, I may
be able to help.

Jeff Dalton,                      JANET: J.Dalton@uk.ac.ed             
AI Applications Institute,        ARPA:  J.Dalton%uk.ac.ed@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
Edinburgh University.             UUCP:  ...!ukc!ed.ac.uk!J.Dalton