Hi Alex, My old Mac mini has an Intel Core 2 Duo, and that is supposed to be a 64-bit machine. However, when I should pick the Ubuntu version for this Mac from this page http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop both the drop-down menus says "32-bit — for machines with less than 2GB RAM". That is what I picked, and I am afraid that prevents me from running 64-bit software. You are right, when I do (cons *CPU (version T)), then I get ("emu" 16 1 16). There is a chance I could have managed to run some 64-bit Linux on this old Mac if I went for a non-GUI version, or a version that was happy with only 1GB RAM, but as it is, I am quite satisfied that I managed to get Linux running at all on this Mac.
/Jon ________________________________________ From: picolisp@software-lab.de <picolisp@software-lab.de> on behalf of Alexander Burger <a...@software-lab.de> Sent: 17 January 2016 08:08 To: picolisp@software-lab.de Subject: Re: PicoLisp on Ubuntu Hi Jon, > I had an old Mac mini that I had given up as an OSX machine, as it had > only 1 GB RAM, and it was too difficult (or impossible?) to install more > ... > > One of the first things I installed was PicoLisp, of course. I simply did the > > sudo apt-get install picolisp > > What I got was 3.1.5.2 C, 32-bit PicoLisp. I was slightly > disappointed. Hmm, I don't know, but isn't the Mac mini hardware 32-bits? > Then today I downloaded the current .tgz from > software-lab.de<http://software-lab.de>. I tried the > (cd src64; make), and to my delight, I now got 64-bit 16.1.16 working! If so, perhaps it compiled the emulator, which is the fallback architecture if the machine is neither arm64, x86_64 or ppc64le? What does *CPU say? I suspect : (cons *CPU (version T)) -> ("emu" 16 1 16) ♪♫ Alex -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe PԔ � &j)m����X��� ��zV�u�.n7�
