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From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
Subject: Re: Porting cmu-cl to NeXT
Message-ID: <1995Jan31.075516.6833@wavehh.hanse.de>
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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 95 07:55:16 GMT
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sef@CS.CMU.EDU (Scott Fahlman) writes:


>In article <3gk8dd$hrv@celebrian.otago.ac.nz> brendon@black_albatross.otago.ac.nz (Brendon) writes:

>   Has anyone attempted a port of cmu-cl to the NeXT yet? Currently
>   I am running CLISP and GCL which work O.K. but there are real
>   speed problems when compiling LARGE programs.

>I'm pretty sure that nobody has seriously attempted a CMUCL port to
>the 68K architecture.  It would be a big job, and at this point a
>Great Leap Backward.

There is a NeXTStep port to HPPA. Since NeXTStep runs on top of Mach,
that wouldn't require really new interfaces to be implemented. Maybe
this is an option for Brendon (still much work).

Martin
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