jeff@aiai.edinburgh.ac.UK (Jeff Dalton) (05/03/91)
> But Lisp is used more than ever before, and machines > that can run a full Lisp system are now well down under $10k. I don't know about "full", but I run KCL on a 16 Meg 33 MHz 386 with Minix as the OS. Total cost, including software, about 3500 pounds. I assume things are cheaper in the US. What I'd like, though, is a better Scheme. I use Elk, but it's an interpreter only. SIOD and derivatives are also interpreters. I'd be happy with a byte-compiler. I'd use OakLisp, but it's not very helpful when debugging. X-Scheme is in a somewhat uncertain state, and the versions I could ftp don't seem very recent. C Scheme requires too much disk space and doesn't (or didn't) compile for the 386. T also seems a bit too much of a heavyweight, and without a 386 version. Scheme-to-C looks possible. Any other suggestions?
cmaeda@exxon-valdez.ft.cs.cmu.EDU (Christopher Maeda) (05/07/91)
For $3.2k (edu price) or $5k (list price) you can get a NeXTstation. It runs Mach2.0/4.3BSD at around 11 specmarks. Allegro CL is $750 (edu) or $1500 (list). Various flavors of scheme are free.