On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Fred Lakin wrote: > Folks -- > > I want to run CMUCL and CLX on a laptop. I like the > new Powerbook, but am considering various alternatives: > > * OS X on a Powerbook running x86free (maybe new Apple pkg) > but, CMUCL under OS X yet? > (hmmm, I can't seem to get to www.cons.org; is it just me?)
Not to be a heretic, but I currently run OpenMCL on an iBook and am pretty happy with it. At the very least that should tide you over til we get off our butts and port CMUCL/SBCL (not that I'm working on that :) > * PC laptop like Dell or Thinkpad > distro recommendations on Redhat vs Debian for CMUCL? > and, hardware recommendations on good laptops for CMUCL and X windows? > processors, lisp seems to like lots of on-board cache > kbd, trivial but important to me: control-meta chording? I used to run CMUCL on a high-end Dell laptop running Redhat. That is a very nice setup, though the Inspiron 8000 series are monsters compared to the iBook. Perhaps stating the obvious, but compared to the machines I ran Lisp on in grad school 15 years ago, having Common Lisp on a laptop makes it seem like we're in some futuristic age of plenty.... Tim
