[Gcl-devel] Re: Lisp for OpenStep/NeXTSTEP

[Camm Maguire]

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to comp.lang.lisp as well.

Greetings!  GCL still has configuration files for NeXT, both m68k and
i386.  They probably need a bit of updating.  GCL does have a fully
functional linux/m68k port at present, on which it self-builds,
builds maxima and acl2, and most likely (waiting for the Debian
autobuilders...) axiom.

I have an old NeXT too which I'm not using anymore.  I've been looking
for a linux port or effort underway, but there doesn't seem to be any
still active.  

Please let me and address@hidden know if you want to try out the
build.  It should be straightforward to address any possible issues.

Take care,

address@hidden (Thomas F. Burdick) writes:

> I recently had an old NeXT workstation fall in my lap.  It's not the
> most practical computer I've ever had my hand on, but at $0 I wasn't
> going to say no, given how much I enjoyed using them 8 years ago when
> I had a friend who was all NeXT all the time.  It'll be a cool public
> terminal to have in the living room for friends -- and I know Steve
> Jobs still uses his, so I'm confident I can integrate it with a Mac
> household.  Web browser, word processor, spreadsheet, paint program,
> Objective-C IDE, I've got all of those, but ...
> 
> Anyone know what Lisp systems ran on NeXT?  Given the era they're
> from, there *had* to be at least a couple, right?  From what I've seen
> from web searches, it looks like there was a version of Allegro 3 that
> ran on black hardware, as well as some old version of AKCL/GCL.  I'd
> be interested to hear from anyone who actually used Lisp on one of
> these -- if I'm going to have it in my living room, I want to have the
> appropriate Lisp on it :-)
> 
> (If you used any Lisp, Common or otherwise, I'd be interested to hear
> about it).
> 
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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