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From: adam@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Adam Glass)
Subject: MIT Scheme doesn't seem to work...
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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1991 14:48:56 GMT

I downloaded MIT Scheme from altdorf.ai.mit.edu a couple of days ago,
(file .../archive/scheme-7.1/next.tar.Z) uncompressed and untar'ed it
and installed it (in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib/mit-scheme).
It ran, but the interpreter wasn't running, as the only things that I
could do that would cause it to respond were control-C sequences.
After about 40 seconds of sitting there and occasionally paying
attention to control-C commands, the code crashes -- sometimes in the
garbage collection routine, sometimes elsewhere.

Is scheme 7.1 not compatible with 2.1 of the operating system?

I have plenty of diskspace, so it shouldn't be an out-of-memory error.

Adam