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From: dandrews@bilver.uucp (Dave Andrews)
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Subject: Re: XLisp? Just how good is it?
Message-ID: <1991May5.005158.22266@bilver.uucp>
Date: 5 May 91 00:51:58 GMT
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In article <91124.043703EH82SANU@MIAMIU.BITNET> EH82SANU@MIAMIU.BITNET (Eric Hilder) writes:
>Hey netters!  Can you guys tell me just how good XLisp is on the Mac?  Is
>it as good as common lisp?  Just how 'artificial' of an intelligence can
>you use it for?  What are its limitations?  Any input is appreciated.

I can't speak for the Mac implementation, but a couple of years ago I
was running Forgy's VPS5 under XLISP on an 8MHz AT clone.  It was a real
bow-wow.  Fired a production about once every three or four seconds.  But
it was fun, and I couldn't beat the price.

David Andrews  bilver!dandrews