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From: sksircar@shade.Princeton.EDU (Subrata Sircar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Lisp in 2.0
Keywords: lisp 68040 2.0 allegro cl
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Date: 21 Feb 91 05:59:23 GMT
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telfeyan@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Roland Telfeyan) writes:
>Just got my 2.0 software and hardware upgrade.  But I'm afraid to
>perform the upgrade because I want to be able to continue my LISP
>development.

Us too.  So far, all we've gotten out of our purchase was a pair of keyboard
feet for $1000 :<)

>Questions:
>    (1) Has anyone gotten their Allegro CL upgrade yet, and if so
>how long did it take to arrive after sending the card in.

NeXTStep 2.0 breaks the Allegro CL foreign-function abilities.  The release
date (obtained by calling NeXT when we registered our purchases) was given
as April.  I'd bet May, just because...

>    (2) [Important] What is the workaround for getting the 1.0
>version to work in 2.0?  In the upgrade manual it says that there
>is an alteration that can be done, but it says nothing more (p. 5).

As far as I am aware, there is no workaround for the foreign-function stuff.
If you have a 1.0 binary which is pure Lisp, then you should be able to run
it straight-out-of-the-box, but any calling of, say, C-code is right out.
Anybody know different?



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