eliot@mind.UUCP (Eliot Handleman) (12/08/87)
I'm trying to acquire a lispmachine for our department (which, despite the header, is music) at minimal cost. Could someone point me in the right direction - bear in mind we have an exceedingly tight budget. Thanks in advance, Eliot Handelman -- Eliot Handelman Woolworth Center for Musical Studies Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544
fritzson@bigburd.PRC.Unisys.COM (Richard Fritzson) (12/08/87)
In article <1437@mind.UUCP> eliot@mind.UUCP (Eliot Handleman) writes: >I'm trying to acquire a lispmachine for our department (which, despite >the header, is music) at minimal cost. Could someone point me in the >right direction - bear in mind we have an exceedingly tight budget. As far as I know, a Xerox 1186 is still the lowest cost "lisp machine" around. It is slower than the others, but the superior environment makes up for the slowness (well almost). But, if I were on a limited budget, and wanted a standalone lisp development environment, I'd consider a Macintosh II, with lots of memory, a very large screen and Coral Lisp. I think your total outlay would be much less than what you would pay for any Lisp machine. The Coral environment seems decent enough and it has some Mac development frills that are unlike any I've seen on Lisp machines. And, you would have one of the best standalone personal computers you can get. I've got no affiliation with any of these companies. I'm just a satisfied Xerox user and a Macintosh admirer. -- -Rich Fritzson ARPA: fritzson@prc.unisys.com UUCP: {sdcrdcf,psuvax1,cbmvax}!burdvax!fritzson
kaplan@uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu (12/11/87)
re: Small LispMachines It depends what you want to do. A Mac-II is a neat idea. you can also get MacScheme and run that on a small mac. You could get a mac SE and put 4meg of memory on that. Do you care WHAT lisp you use (ie do you want to run other people's code already written in (say) common lisp or do you want to write your own. (A free plug for MacScheme (and I have no connection with semantic microsystems): The new release (1.5) with compiler is due out very soon (like january next year?) and will be VERY fast)