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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Flavours of Lisp
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.050856.14219@Think.COM>
Date: 25 Apr 91 05:08:56 GMT
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In article <1991Apr24.123457.24123@cns.umist.ac.uk> me@cns.umist.ac.uk (Martin Earl) writes:
>Apologies is this is a FAQ but I'm new to this group.

I plan on including some answers to this in the FAQ list I'm writing.

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

Right.

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

I think AKCL is free.  There's also Ibuki Common Lisp, which I think is a
commercial derivative of KCL (someone please correct me if I'm wrong).

>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?

Lucid Common Lisp exists for many different systems.  Lucid doesn't sell
Lisp for Suns directly; instead, Sun distributes Lucid CL with the name Sun
Common Lisp.

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

Franz also distributes Allegro Common Lisp for many systems, including
Suns.

>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.

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>Martin Earl,				martin@uk.ac.umist.ccl
>Centre for Computational Linguistics,	..!mcsun!ukc!uk.ac.umist.ccl!martin
>UMIST, Manchester M60 1QD, UK		Tel: +44 61 200 3111

Since you're in the UK, there's also a British Common Lisp vendor named
Procyon.  I don't know whether they have a Sun version, though.
--
Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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