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From: jashley@parc.xerox.com (John Michael Ashley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: MIT Scheme doesn't seem to work...
Message-ID: <1991Jun24.155446.16018@parc.xerox.com>
Date: 24 Jun 91 15:54:46 GMT
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In article <1991Jun24.144856.1389@news.media.mit.edu>  
adam@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Adam Glass) writes:
> 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?

The standard release doesn't work with the '040.  However, Bill Rozas has a fix  
available on altdorf as pub/jinx/next.tar.Z.  Grab it, unpack it, and then  
re-make the system.  You have to go to the microcode directory or something to  
do the make; I don't remember the details.  Once the make is done, reinstall  
everything, and you'll be set.

Thanks a lot to Bill for getting MIT Scheme running on the NeXT!