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From: spiros@ahxenix.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: LISP for IBM compatible PC's
Message-ID: <316@ahxenix.REL.COM>
Date: Mon, 26-Jan-87 21:28:58 EST
Article-I.D.: ahxenix.316
Posted: Mon Jan 26 21:28:58 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 30-Jan-87 05:44:13 EST
References: <1048@sfsup.UUCP> <6472@aero.ARPA>
Organization: Auburn Hills Xenix BBS
Lines: 29
Summary: Mucho Expensive...

In article <6472@aero.ARPA>, coffee@aero.UUCP writes:
> In article <1048@sfsup.UUCP> jerry@sfsup.UUCP writes:
> >If you were forced to write LISP code on a PC, what interpreter (ie.
> >name of product and manufacturer) would you buy?   
> >
> 
> The February issue of AI Expert begins a three-part wrap-up of microcomputer
> LISPs; both the series and I really see no alternative to the Gold Hill
> products if you want a quality development environment where the editor
> really supports the process. Caveats: dynamic scoping in the PC version's
> interpreter, one-dimensional limit on arrays, limited floating-point on the
> PC version. The AT-specific version, though, is a thing of beauty that is
> making our Symbolics users' eyes bug out.
> 						Cheers, Peter C.

Additional Caveats:

Ridiculous price (is it around 900 bucks for the development system? I 
seem to remember around $595 for the interpreter based system), 
Ridiculous copy protection scheme (one of the most annoying
to live with).

Oh well.

Spiros

-- 
Spiros Triantafyllopoulos
   spiros@ahxenix.uucp