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From: mikel@Apple.COM (Mikel Evins)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Flavours of Lisp
Keywords: n
Message-ID: <52185@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 30 Apr 91 17:02:48 GMT
References: <1991Apr24.123457.24123@cns.umist.ac.uk> <281747A1.43EB@deneva.sdd.trw.com> <1991Apr29.175539.23275@edsr.eds.com>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <1991Apr29.175539.23275@edsr.eds.com> wjb@tantalum.eds.com (Bill Biesty) writes:
>Nope.  I recently checked with them.  It sells for $1800, though if you're a 
>student (fuzzy definition) you can get it for $900.  From talking to the sales
>rep. this price is less than half of what it costs on the the Sun Sparc 
>platform ($4000).  But 3-4 times the cost on a Mac (Finder, from APDA, $495).
>(All prices approximate.)

The Lisp from Apple is not a Franz product. The similarity
in name was due to a marketing arrangement between Franz
and Coral, the company that originally developed the
Macintosh product. Apple bought Coral, acquiring the
rights to the product, along with several of the programmers
who developed it. The product is now known as
Macintosh Common Lisp, and version 2.0 is presently in
Beta test.