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From: coffee@aero.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: LISP for IBM compatible PC's
Message-ID: <6715@aero.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 30-Jan-87 20:58:37 EST
Article-I.D.: aero.6715
Posted: Fri Jan 30 20:58:37 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 31-Jan-87 14:50:56 EST
References: <1048@sfsup.UUCP> <80300002@uiucdcsp>
Reply-To: coffee@aero.UUCP (Peter C. Coffee)
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
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Keywords: Lisp 80286 PC AT Gold Hill
Summary: Consider performance in context of cost...

In article <80300002@uiucdcsp> forbus@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
<< (Attributions deleted -- my reply to original question follows) >>
>>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...Gold Hill...
>
>>The AT-specific version...is a thing of beauty that is
>>making our Symbolics users' eyes bug out.
>>						Cheers, Peter C.
>
>This is a joke, right?  I've used Symbolics machines for years, and I've
>also developed over 200 pages of code for instructional purposes...
>Guess which computer can run larger programs and horse around more data?
>Not to mention the relative quality of the programming environments...

As I recall, the original query was specifically directed to PC
environments. Further, I didn't say that our Symbolics users were ready
to switch machines; I intended to indicate that they were impressed by
the performance and the quality of the environment IN RELATION TO SYSTEM
COST, which has been known to be a factor for some of us...

Let's read replies in the context of the original message and be a little
less quick with the derisive flames, hmm?
						Peter C.