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From: johnl@ima.ISC.COM (John R. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Any decent IBM PC lisps?
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Date: 13 Apr 88 16:33:54 GMT
Reply-To: johnl@ima.UUCP (John R. Levine)
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My apologies if this has been thrashed to death, but are there any decent
Lisp implementations that run on a more or less normal 286 PC?  Full
Common Lisp unnecessary, compiler desirable to avoid dying of old age while
waiting for programs to run.

Here are ones that I've heard of:

Gold Hill Golden Common Lisp:  Full CL with compiler, but quite expensive
and needs 4 meg to run.

Soft Warehouse muLisp-87:  Has compiler, claims to run in 640K, costs
about $300.

Star Sapphire Lisp:  Claims to be full CL, compiles into C, has some sort
of virtual memory thing.  About $450.

TI PC Scheme:  Byte code compiler, not full CL, editor, library.  Only $80.

My local BBS system has a copy of KCL, and four PD lisps, PC-Lisp,
PCLisp (claimed to be Franz clone), Lisp 2.15, and Xlisp 2.0.

Has anybody hand-to-hand combat with any or all of these to report?  The TI
Scheme sure is cheap, is it any good?

TIA,
-- 
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