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From: tfb@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Tim Bradshaw)
Subject: Re: Squeezing more speed out of LISP.
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* Marco Antoniotti wrote:
> (Jeff Dalton) writes:
>    Like it or not, a port to FreeBSD, NetBSD, 386BSD, or Linux
>    would be vastly more useful to me and many like me.

> Note that I don't necessarily like the WindowsNT option.

Am I right in thinking that retargeting the compiler to produce 386
code is a lot more work than making things run on a new OS?  If this
is true it should be possible to have linux/windows/BSD versions quite
easily once one can get 386 code at all.

--tim
