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From: dleigh@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Darren Leigh)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Scheme on a PC?
Message-ID: <678@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM>
Date: Tue, 18-Aug-87 14:46:12 EDT
Article-I.D.: hplabsz.678
Posted: Tue Aug 18 14:46:12 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 22-Aug-87 18:38:49 EDT
References: <316@m10ux.UUCP> <527@yetti.UUCP>
Reply-To: dleigh@hplabsz.UUCP (Darren Leigh)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
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Summary: slow on an XT, reasonable on an AT

In article <527@yetti.UUCP> mike@yetti.UUCP (Mike Clarkson ) writes:
>In article <316@m10ux.UUCP> rgr@m10ux.UUCP (Duke Robillard) writes:
>>Does anyone here have any experience with TI's Scheme
>>for the IBM-PC world?  It's so cheap, that I'm sorely tempted,
>>but I fear that my 8086-based machine just won't be able to
>>do anything with it....
>>
>
>TI's Scheme is an excellent product, and well worth it's price.  The 

I run TI's PC Scheme on my 4.77 MHz XT clone and it is so slow that it
is almost unusable.  The emacs-like editor won't even react in real
typing time.

I have tried TI Scheme on a couple of AT machines (one was 6 MHz and
the other was 8 MHz) and the performance was quite reasonable.

My only gripe with the implementation itself is that I can't compile
something and run it without being in Scheme itself.

Darren Leigh
dleigh@hplabs.hp.com