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From: bzs@bu-cs.bu.EDU (Barry Shein)
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Subject: Re: Porting Macsyma to Sun3s
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Date: Wed, 11-Nov-87 15:31:14 EST
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Several of us have already ported Macsyma to the Sun3 and other
systems. A single version which runs on Vax/4.3, Nil, Sun3, Encore
Multimax, Celerity and probably a few others I forgot will be in
NESC's hands shortly for public distribution. It also has a lot of
features which haven't worked in a long time put all back together
(particularly in the graphics packages and the help stuff.)

If you wanted to port what you have to the Sun3 yourself it's not very
hard assuming you have a correctly working Franz Lisp (the one with
my* changes for the Sun3 obviously works) and are comfortable with
such things but you'll be better off waiting for this as you'd be
porting an inferior version of the code.  A KCL version is being
looked at, one is available based on the earlier MacSyma release.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University

* "my" in a collective sense, others worked on it also who deserve
credit, I mainly mean most people probably get it from me.