From: Lafourcade Mathieu
Subject: LISP Cards on Macintosh
Date:
Message-ID: <33539@imag.imag.fr>
I would like to buy a LISP card (Machine ?) for the Macintosh.
Where can I find inoformation about performances, compatibility and ... price.
I am currently using Common Lisp (MCL on the Mac) and CLOS.
- Mathieu
In article <·····@imag.imag.fr> ········@imag.fr (Lafourcade Mathieu) writes:
>I would like to buy a LISP card (Machine ?) for the Macintosh.
>Where can I find inoformation about performances, compatibility and ... price.
I know of two Lisp coprocessors for the Mac. Symbolics sells MacIvory, and
TI used to sell MicroExplorer (I suspect they no longer do, as I haven't
heard anything about it for years, but it may be possible to get used
ones).
They both are NuBus cards, so they require a Mac II or Quadra. They
implement a complete Lisp Machine on the card; a Macintosh window serves as
the console.
A MacIvory can probably run Lisp about as fast as a Sparcstation 1. It
costs $20-30K depending on whether you get a development or delivery system
and how much memory you get (it uses its own NuBus memory, not the Mac's
regular memory).
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Barry Margolin
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