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Subject: Re: Lisps on 68000's
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Date: Tue, 6-Sep-83 01:25:29 EDT
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From:  Jonathan Rees <Rees@YALE.ARPA>


    Date: 19 Aug 83 10:52:11-PDT (Fri)
    From: harpo!eagle!allegra!jdd @ Ucb-Vax
    Subject: Lisps on 68000's
    Article-I.D.: allegra.1760

    ...  T sounds good, but the people who are saying it's
    great are the same ones trying to sell it to me for several
    thousand dollars, so I'd like to get some more disinterested
    opinions first.  The only person I've talked to said it was
    awful, but he admits he used an early version.

T is distributed by Yale for $75 to universities and other non-profit 
organizations.

Yale has not yet decided on the means by which it will distribute T to
for-profit institutions, but it has been negotiating with a few 
companies, including Cognitive Systems, Inc.  To my knowledge no final
agreements have been signed, so right now, no one can sell it.

"Supported" versions will be available from commercial outfits who are
willing to take on the extra responsibility (and reap the profits?),
but unsupported versions will presumably still be available directly
from Yale.

Regardless of the final outcome, no company or companies will have 
exclusive marketing rights.  We do not want a high price tag to
inhibit availability.

                        Jonathan Rees
                        T Project
                        Yale Computer Science Dept.

P.S. As a regular T user, I can say that it is a good system.  As its 
principal implementor, I won't claim to be disinterested.
Testimonials from satisfied users may be found in previous AILIST
digests; perhaps you can obtain back issues.