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Wraith Scheme 1.35 released (shareware parallel R5 Scheme for Macintosh)

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Jay Reynolds Freeman

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Sep 8, 2009, 3:41:28 AM9/8/09
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Today I released version 1.35 of Wraith Scheme, which is a
shareware R5 Scheme implementation for the Apple Macintosh, with
enhancements for parallel processing, by which I mean multiple
copies of the Wraith Scheme application (separate Unix
processes) all running at once, sharing Scheme main memory. For
details, and to download a copy, visit the software page of my
website:

Main website:

http://web.mac.com/jay_reynolds_freeman

Software page:

http://web.mac.com/jay_reynolds_freeman/iWeb/My/Software.html

The software page includes a link to a web-browsable copy of the
Wraith Scheme Help file, and a more specific link to the part of
that file that discusses parallel processing.

Wraith Scheme 1.35 is a bug-fixer for its predecessor.

Barring major bug-fixes or other unexpected circumstances,
Wraith Scheme 1.35 will be the last version of Wraith Scheme
that runs on MacOS 10.4 (Tiger) and will also be the last
version that runs on any PowerPC-based Macintosh.

I am currently working on a version of Wraith Scheme that will
be a 64-bit application and will require MacOS 10.6 (Snow
Leopard), and will therefore only run on Macintoshes with Intel
processors. I am aware that it is possible to make 64-bit
Macintosh applications that run on PowerPC processors, but it
takes a G5 PowerPC to run them. I do not own a G5, and so could
not test such an application, and therefore do not propose to
write and release one.

-- Jay Reynolds Freeman
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Jay_Reynol...@mac.com
http://web.mac.com/jay_reynolds_freeman (personal web site)

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