How about CommonLisp on 80386 machines

[Jeff Kitson]

What is the state of CommonLisp on 80386 based machines, such as
the Compaq 386. It seems as though this machine could be reasonable
for lisp. Has anyone looked into this possibility? If so, the questions
that I have are:

Is there a virtual memory operating system that will support large programs?

How good are the CommonLisp implementation available?

Thanks in advance for any info anyone can pass along, I will summarize
the info I get, -Jeff

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Jeff Kitson je...@kestrel.arpa

[Jeffrey Jacobs]

LUCID recently announced an agreement with INTEL to produce a CL for the
80386.

Golden Hill has an add-on board consisteng of an 80386, with 16K I believe.
Gold Hill should also run in extended memory on COMPAQ 80386. I don't
think either of the above takes real advanatage of the 80386 architecture
(which is almost suitable for a LISP implementations).

Jeffrey M. Jacobs
CONSART Systems Inc.
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[spray@smu]

The Gold Hill add-on board has a 386 and 16 MEG (not K) of RAM.
It's called the Hummingboard and was designed by AI Architects of
Cambridge MA.

Rob Spray
S&M U.
...convex!smu!spray

Disclaimer: I know one of the principals of AI Architects. He better
buy me a dinner if he sells a truckload 'cos of this!

[Charles A. Cox]

In article <13...@kestrel.ARPA> je...@kestrel.ARPA (Jeff Kitson) writes:
>What is the state of CommonLisp on 80386 based machines, [ ... ]

Franz Inc.'s Extended Common Lisp (ExCL) runs on the 386 architecture.

N.B. ExCL is not the same as Franz Lisp.