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From: mikel@Apple.COM (Mikel Evins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Allegro CL on NeXT
Message-ID: <50657@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 23 Mar 91 00:11:47 GMT
References: <13720@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <50632@apple.Apple.COM> <CNH5730.91Mar22172650@maraba.tamu.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <CNH5730.91Mar22172650@maraba.tamu.edu> cnh5730@maraba.tamu.edu writes:
>In article <50632@apple.Apple.COM> mikel@Apple.COM (Mikel Evins) writes:
>   [... stuff deleted ...]
>   ACL on the NeXT as adequate, but not stellar. The fastest
>   Lisp I know of right now is Lucid on the SPARCStation 2
>   [... stuff deleted ...]
>
>This is a comparison of a 28 MIPS machine with a 15 MIPS machine.

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that the comparisons were
absolute. You are, of course, correct. ACL still doesn't
look stellar to me for a machine of the NeXTStation's class.
It's okay, though, and the alternatives are relatively
few.