Am Freitag, 10.01.03 um 20:54 Uhr schrieb Tim Moore:
> > 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 :) Yes, OpenMCL is a really nice implementation, and Gary Byers is improving it at quite a rapid pace, actually. Additionally, in a pinch, you can run CMUCL with CLX and X under Mac OS X using Virtual PC and Debian/Linux actually, and while this is quite slow (a 600 MHz G3 provides something like 150-200 MHz Pentium performance), I've used this for demonstrations/presentations and while working on the road for a couple of uses. That said, I really should get off my butt and do some work on the work-in-progress SBCL port to OS X, and/or do something to port CMUCL... Maybe next month... Personally I think one of the new PowerBooks (either the 12" for the size-minded, or the 17" for those who like to have a portable Desktop machine) makes for a really nice Lisp laptop... Not that the "old" 15" modell is to be scoffed at, either... > 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.... Indeed, indeed. Current notebooks are so fast, expandable and light, that I'm unlikely to ever buy a workstation again. Coupled with a nice Lisp environment... Heaven! Regs, Pierre. -- Pierre R. Mai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.pmsf.de/pmai/ The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents. -- Nathaniel Borenstein
