Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!cipin
From: cipin@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Lubo Cipin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.xerox
Subject: Xerox Lisp on Suns - summary
Summary: Works fine.
Message-ID: <1989Dec19.214652.24373@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Date: 19 Dec 89 21:46:52 GMT
Reply-To: lubo@doe.utoronto.ca
Organization: Dictionary of Old English (U of Toronto)
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Many thanks to the dozen+ responses I received to my request for experiences
with Xerox Lisp on Suns. They were very helpful.

They basically all concurred that:

  - The compatibility between Medley on Xerox 1108s or 1186s and SUNs was
    excellent, due to the fact that the emulator emulates at the byte
    level. The sysouts are perfectly compatible.

    (Only one compatibility problem was mentioned, which involved some 
    really ancient code).

  - Sparcstations are the way to go, if you can afford them.  (They do seem
    to give you a lot of preformance/value for your money.) With sufficient
    memory they will run faster than 1186s. Even Sun/3s will be fairly efficeint
    given enough memory. Everybody recommended 8 MB of memory, or better. 
    Arun Welch <welch@cis.ohio-state.edu> seems to have captured everybody's
    opinion by writing that
      4M is really too little, 8M works fine, 16M is wonderful, 
      32M is decadent.
	
   - Xerox fonts posed no problem: Medley supports all fonts/character sets 
     of Lyric , and their use is transparent: it's really like runnning a 
     1108/1186 box.


--Lubo

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