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In article <HARDY.92Oct9110023@golem.ps.uci.edu>
 hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) writes:

   In article <199210062011.AA00961@miles.ircam.fr>
    Jonathan.Bachrach@ircam.fr (Jonathan Bachrach) writes:


      Does 7.2 run on the NeXT.  If not, any idea when it will?

   For the moment it's still:... Release 7.1.3 ...

I had already anwered Bachrach's question offline, but it looks like
I'd better do it online as well to neutralize Hardy's well-meaning
misinformation.

MIT Scheme 7.2 *does* run fine on the NeXT.  In fact, early versions
of Schematik came packaged with MIT Scheme 7.2.  The only reason why I
retreated to 7.1.3 for later versions of Schematik was because 7.2 had
"alpha test" status while 7.1.3 was officially released.  (I had been
using 7.2 rather than 7.1 before that point because the cache-flushing
code to accomodate the 68040 processor was originally in 7.2 only; as
of 7.1.3 it was back-ported into 7.1.)  7.2 worked fine on the NeXT
then and to my knowledge still does now.

Note that this doesn't address the (unasked) question of whether it is
preferable to use 7.1.3 or the latest 7.2.