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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Subject: Re: Squeezing more speed out of LISP.
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Date: Sun, 23 Oct 1994 21:47:42 GMT
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In article <MARCOXA.94Oct22104333@mosaic.nyu.edu> marcoxa@mosaic.nyu.edu (Marco Antoniotti) writes:
>In article <38a3d0$g9j@cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu> sef@CS.CMU.EDU (Scott Fahlman) writes:
>
>	...
>
>   As a guess, figure a person-year for someone really good who already
>   knows his way around Linux.  We would like to see such a port, and
>   would offer advice and encouragement, but my people can spare very
>   little time for this.
>
>   I wonder if a Linux port would be more useful to the world than a
>   Windows NT port.  Linux probably would be a good deal easier.
>
>Like it or not, a port to Windows NT would make more sense. 

Like it or not, a port to FreeBSD, NetBSD, 386BSD, or Linux
would be vastly more useful to me and many like me.

-- jd
