spike@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Spike) (09/19/89)
Software Tool & Die 1330 Beacon Street Brookline, MA 02146 (617) 739-0202 FRANZ LISP OPUS 38.92 FOR THE MACINTOSH Interpreter and Compiler Full Source Site Licensing for Academia and Research Brookline, Mass, -- September 18, 1989 -- Software Tool & Die and Fort Pond Research have announced a complete port of Franz Lisp to the Apple Macintosh running under Mac/OS. The software package includes both Franz Lisp, the Liszt compiler, complete Lisp libraries and other support software. Included will be full sources and binaries and hardcopy of the manual with no restriction on manual duplication. Academic and government laboratory source site licensing is priced at $500.00 and allows unlimited use and distribution on any Macintosh owned by the organization. Corporate research lab licenses are also available at the same price. Franz Lisp was developed by the University of California, Berkeley to support research in artificial intelligence, symbolic and artificial intelligence programming. Franz Lisp is one of the most widely used Lisps in academia and has been distributed with Berkeley Unix for almost a decade. The language is used in the textbooks: Touretzky, David S., LISP : a gentle introduction to symbolic computation, New York, Harper & Row, 1984. Wilensky, Robert, LISPcraft, New York, W.W. Norton, 1984. This release incorporates many bug fixes and enhancements over the original academic release. In particular, many changes were made to accommodate the Macintosh environment. Fort Pond Research and Software Tool & Die's desire is to provide a high-quality research and educational Lisp environment readily available to students, staff and faculty throughout an organization. Franz Lisp pre-dates the Common Lisp standard. Although the package contains many similar ideas they are not, in general, compatible. Complete recompilation from C source requires Symantec's Think C, version 3.0 which must be separately purchased. Future plans are to add extensive access to the Macintosh Toolbox interface, move to other C development platforms, maintain compatibility with new Mac OS releases (it currently runs on Mac OS 6.0) and collect and distribute software packages written in or adapted to Franz Lisp. For more information contact: Software Tool & Die (617) 739-0202 or send mail to: franz@std.com ..!uunet!skuld!franz * * * Think C is a trademark of Symantec Corporation. Franz Lisp Opus 38.92 is copyrighted by the Regents of the University of California. Apple and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc.