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From: me@cns.umist.ac.uk (Martin Earl)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Flavours of Lisp
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.123457.24123@cns.umist.ac.uk>
Date: 24 Apr 91 12:34:57 GMT
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Apologies is this is a FAQ but I'm new to this group.

I'm getting a bit confused about different types of lisp and their
availability, particularly the common lisp variants.  Please correct me
if my beliefs are incorrect and educate me on the gaps.

KCL is Kyoto common lisp and is PD/generally available?

AKCL is KCL with extras from Austin ?  What's the availability on this
one?  Purchase? Ftp from somewhere? or what?

Lucid seems to be tied up with Sun Micro in some way which I don't quite
understand.  Is Lucid a variant of common lisp of which sun do a version
for suns or is lucid Sun's version of common lisp?  If the former, where
can one get other versions of Lucid from?

Then there's also a common lisp from Franz (Allegro?) and ... and...

The hardware I have is Sun3 and Sun4 and OS version 4.1 and 4.1.1 at the
moment.  Any pointers/info gratefully received.

Thanks in advance,

Martin

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