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From: mckay@bigburd.PRC.Unisys.COM (Donald P McKay)
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Subject: Re: frustration with LUCID on Sun 3
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Date: Fri, 1-May-87 17:09:54 EDT
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Lucid Common Lisp is recommended  to be  run on  a Sun  with at  least 8MB of
physical memory  I believe  (don't have  my brochure  handy).   On some other
newsgroups and perhaps this one, others have noted that one should always opt
for a workstation with the most physical memory one can afford in order to be
able to run Common Lisps with other things,  like the  editor, mail, windows,
etc.  without waiting for the system to page.   This  is especially sensitive
for diskless workstations which have to page over a network.  

In  your  case,  check  with  Sun as  to how  much physcial  memory is really
required vs what  you can  limp along  with.   I think  the recommendation is
really along the lines of "at least 8MB of physical memory".  


As for  the windowing  environments and  uses of  windows integral  to a Lisp
system,  well  the  non-Lisp  machine  environments are  just lagging behind.
Lucid Common Lisp on a Sun is just not like Zeta Lisp on a Symbolics or a 
....