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From: tenny@ootool.dec.com (Dave Tenny)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: How to run Common LISP on '040 machines?
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.132422.27254@engage.enet.dec.com>
Date: 19 Mar 91 13:25:40 GMT
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In article <2311@fornax.UUCP>, mcdonald@fornax.UUCP (Ken Mcdonald) writes...
> 
> 
>I have a need to make use of Common Lisp on the NeXT in the very near
>future (i.e. I have a time frame of about three to four weeks in
>which I want to hack together a prototype of a program on the NeXT.)
>Sadly, the current version of Common LISP does not work with '040
>processors, and even more sadly, every machine in sight at my
>universitly seems to have done the '040 upgrade.  Question:  is there
>any way to get Common Lisp functioning on these machines?

There are no patches.  To run lisp on an 040, you need to get the ACL
upgrade from Franz, Inc.  I don't think they've shipped it yet, or plan
to until April.

Dave