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From: kuenkler@uklirb.UUCP (Andreas Kuenkler AG Wippermann)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Lucid CL
Message-ID: <7908@uklirb.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 90 17:06:33 GMT
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, W-Germany
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Maybe a dull question:

Why is the value of most-positive-fixnum = 536870911 = 2^29-1
in Lucid CL on Apollo Domain DN3000 workstations instead of being 2^31-1?

Are the two missing bits used for cdr-coding?

Andreas Kuenkler
University of Kaiserslautern
FRG
kuenkler@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de  or  kuenkler@uklirb.uucp