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At 11:43 Uhr -0700 03.06.1999, Mike McDonald wrote:

>  These are just my personal opinions. The firm I work for knows
>nothing about Lisp. (When I told them about CLOS, they were shocked.
>They didn't know lisp even had arrays! I have a LONG task ahead to
>educate these folks. Now, showing them a real lispm environment might
>get their attention.) They also got rid of all of the Macs in the
>company about 18 months ago. 

Does not sound like a place I'd like to be. ;-)

>the concerns is always cost. Given that there already is MCL for the
>Macs at less than a grand, I'd think Genera priced in the multiple
>thousands range would have very few buyers.

Well, MCL already is a pretty good competition. MCL on my PowerBook
is roughly ten times faster than a MacIvory 3 (which is not that much).

>
>would imagine that if you did a highly tuned emulator, that you'd end
>up charging in the same range as the Alpha version.

Personally I'd be more interested in a Symbolics emulator (Open Genera)
running under Solaris 7 on SPARC. But that's me.
Alpha is not very common in my world. We mostly
use Solaris and the SPARC hardware is quite good.

Hmm, well - a portable Lispm would be something new.






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