stansbury@grafix.DEC (VAX Forms - REAL Field Service) (06/25/85)
Since this newsgroup is net.rumor, could we have a few more rumors and less discussion about Kate Bush and the usefulness of attending lectures? Both of these discussions are getting a little boring. Thanks, Jack Stansbury
connolly@steinmetz.UUCP (C. Ian Connolly) (06/28/85)
Well, I'll take a stab here, too... Does anyone out there know about the rumor that Symbolics (or anyone else for that matter) is working on, or thinking of, implementing C for Lisp Machines? -- C. Ian Connolly, GE-CRD - USENET: ...edison!steinmetz!connolly ARPANET: connolly@ge-crd
john@frog.UUCP (John Woods) (07/01/85)
> > Well, I'll take a stab here, too... > > Does anyone out there know about the rumor that Symbolics (or > anyone else for that matter) is working on, or thinking of, > implementing C for Lisp Machines? > -- > C. Ian Connolly, GE-CRD - USENET: ...edison!steinmetz!connolly > ARPANET: connolly@ge-crd > Sorry, that is only a rumor. They are too busy implementing their new BASIC microcode machine, the B-Machine. Basic Machines, Inc. (BMI) is also working on a competitive product, the BETA. -- John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (617) 626-1101 ...!decvax!frog!john, ...!mit-eddie!jfw, jfw%mit-ccc@MIT-XX.ARPA This has been a public disservice announcement.
daveb@rtech.UUCP (Dave Brower) (07/01/85)
> > Well, I'll take a stab here, too... > > Does anyone out there know about the rumor that Symbolics (or > anyone else for that matter) is working on, or thinking of, > implementing C for Lisp Machines? > -- > C. Ian Connolly, GE-CRD - USENET: ...edison!steinmetz!connolly > ARPANET: connolly@ge-crd I think that Scott Layson, formerly of Mark of the Unicorn (Mince. Scribble, Final Word) was working on a C compiler for some lisp machine in lisp. I don't remember if he has an LMI or a Symbolics. -dB -- {amdahl|dual|sun|zehntel}\ {ucbvax|decvax}!mtxinu---->!rtech!daveb ihnp4!{phoenix|amdahl}___/
ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) (07/03/85)
> > Well, I'll take a stab here, too... > > Does anyone out there know about the rumor that Symbolics (or > anyone else for that matter) is working on, or thinking of, > implementing C for Lisp Machines? > -- > C. Ian Connolly, GE-CRD - USENET: ...edison!steinmetz!connolly > ARPANET: connolly@ge-crd I believe LMI (Lisp Machines Inc) has already done this as well as symbolics. -Ron
zrm@prism.UUCP (07/09/85)
Scott Layson has indeed written some sort of C development environment for the Zetalisp environment. He did this on a CADR, built, I think, by LMI. The CADR is the Lisp machine as it was designed at MIT and both the Symbolics and LMI machines are descended from it. There ought to be little difficulty in running a system developed on a CADR on either a 3600 or a Lambda. LMI does have an optional Unix processor for their machine, but I'd advise taking a good hard look at it before buying. The processor is the same as was in the Texas Instruments Nu Machine and was a horrible Unix system then. I don't know what LMI has done with it since they took over the Nu Machine technology from TI. Symbolics's compiler hackers are doing an Ada for their machine, so I think the C environment they were contenplating earlier has been back-burnered, but may be revived after the Ada is done.
tp@ndm20 (07/10/85)
I heard a while back that LMI was going to have an add-in board for the Lisp Machine that would be a 68000 cpu running UNIX. This may have happened, or may have been somebodies fantasy, but the source claimed to have SEEN it running.