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From: todd@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Todd Ogasawara)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.lang.prolog,comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: How do I learn about AI, Prolog, and/or Lisp
Keywords: AI Prolog Lisp Turbo Prolog
Message-ID: <2337@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 2 Sep 88 19:08:26 GMT
References: <398@mfgfoc.UUCP> <952@scovert.sco.COM> <984@mdbs.UUCP>
Reply-To: todd@uhccux.UUCP (Todd Ogasawara)
Organization: University of Hawaii
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In article <984@mdbs.UUCP> kbc@mdbs.UUCP (Kevin Castleberry) writes:
>>	Microsoft has a Lisp for MS-DOS (supposedly it is Common
>>	Lisp, but again, I haven't played with it). 
>Is this true?  Microsoft has a lisp?

Yes, Microsoft has a Lisp they license from a firm in Honolulu called
Soft WareHouse.  Soft WareHouse sells the same product under the name
muLISP-87.  muLISP itself is NOT a Common Lisp.  However, it comes with a
support library (source code in Lisp included) that adds the Common Lisp
functions to muLISP.

They also have an optional incremental compiler (I think this option is
$100 or so, I haven't bought it myself).

muLISP is no replacement for a big expensive Lisp workstation.  But, if you
want a small, inexpensive, relatively speedy full Lisp development, I
recommend you look at this package.

It is small and fast enough to use on my 4.77MHz 8088-based Toshiba T-1000
when I feel like doing some Lisp programming away from my office in the
shade of a tree.

Soft WareHouse also has an interesting license.  It reads "the software
shall be run on at most five (5) computers residing in a single building or
facility, under the control of END USER."  Pretty reasonable, I think.

-- 
Todd Ogasawara, U. of Hawaii Faculty Development Program
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