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| 596.1 | LISP Forever !!!! | TEACH::ART | Art Baker, DC Training Center (EKO) | Thu Jul 16 1987 09:54 | 13 |
| > Getting the source for XLISP 1.7 (or 1.8 when it comes out)
> and modifying it to allow calls to Intuition routines in a fashion
> similiar to the way Vax Lisp allows calls to UIS routines.
If you can find the source, I'd be more than willing to participate
in a joint project with you. I'd LOVE to be able to get at Intuition
from inside XLISP. The only real hassle would be maintaining
compatibility with later release of XLISP; it would require some
careful planning to make sure we didn't get stuck in a corner...
Anybody else interested ?
-Art
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| 596.2 | Hard Disk Overkill | TLE::RMEYERS | Randy Meyers | Thu Jul 16 1987 17:23 | 10 |
| Re: .0
>Of course, I'm not *really* ever going to get around to it.
>Particulary until I join the ranks of hard drive owners.
Wow, how times change. Remember when XLISP was first written. It
was developed on a PDT-11 by a DEC employee who moved on to another
company. A PDT is basically a very small LSI-11 (of PDP-11/03 size)
with a total of 64K of memory and two single sided 8 inch drives
(243K per drive).
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| 596.3 | hackety-hackety | MTBLUE::PFISTER_ROB | | Fri Jul 17 1987 09:48 | 9 |
| Re: .0, .1
Sounds like a decent endeavor, I'm interested, but after I get my
serial port/modem problems straightened out (I'm afraid both are
toast, or a reasonable facimile).
Now where's the source?
-Robb
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| 596.4 | XLISP began on a VAX | NOVA::RAVAN | | Fri Jul 17 1987 11:28 | 7 |
| RE: .2
No, sorry, I had the office next to Dave's when he started XLISP.
He developed the first version of XLISP on a VAX. It may have
been ported to the PDT using DECUS C, but he started on a 780.
-jim
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| 596.5 | New DMA hard disk? | Z::TENNY | Dave Tenny | DTN 225-6089 | Fri Jul 17 1987 14:14 | 8 |
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I spoke with Don at The Memory Location today,
he mentioned an ad in AmigaWhirld (which I no longer receive)
for another DMA hard disk besides the Pal Jr.
Has anyone seen it?
Would you post a word or two about it?
Dave
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| 596.6 | Disappointment | TLE::RMEYERS | Randy Meyers | Fri Jul 17 1987 17:10 | 3 |
| Re: .4
Damn! Another romantic illusion shattered!
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| 596.7 | Another hard disk manufacturer. | Z::TENNY | Dave Tenny | DTN 225-6089 | Mon Jul 20 1987 12:28 | 10 |
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I looked in an AmigaWorld for the ad mentioned in .5,
and found the vaporware announcement. It might be worth
waiting for.
All I remember about it was:
Uses DMA
List price 1099 $
If nothing else, when it appears, maybe it will drive down
other prices.
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| 596.8 | Heeeeres XLISP!!! | SQM::JMSYNGE | James M Synge, VMS Performance Anal. | Thu Aug 06 1987 13:29 | 8 |
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I've got version 1.7 of Xlisp in
SQM""::PERFD1$:[JMSYNGE.PUBLIC.XLISP]
I've deleted the examples, so you'll need to know how to use
all the features with out reference to the examples.
James Synge
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| 596.9 | comspec hard drive, bootable! | Z::TENNY | Dave Tenny | DTN 225-6089 | Thu Sep 24 1987 14:47 | 15 |
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I received a blurb from COMSPEC communications about their new hard drive
offering. (I purchased their 2M memory board).
The disks were in 20M and 40M flavors, and the price was a little stiff,
( $11xx.00 for the 20M and I don't remember the 40M at all)
but,
COMSPEC claims that the kickstart and workbench will BOOT FROM THE HARD DISK!
Anyway,
I already have a Supra drive, but if anyone is interested,
I'll post more accurate info from the blurb.
Dave
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| 596.10 | | LEDS::ACCIARDI | | Thu Sep 24 1987 14:57 | 6 |
| List prices don't mean all that much, Dave. The 20 meg Supra lists
for $995, but the street price is $750-$850.
As more vendors release products, prices are bound to drop further.
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| 596.11 | | Z::TENNY | Dave Tenny | DTN 225-6089 | Thu Sep 24 1987 17:16 | 5 |
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Yup, I'm aware of "real" prices. I bought my 30-meg supra from ABEL supply.
I hate to think of what the memory location would charge, even on a nice day.
Dave
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