[gclist] Get Real! Require GC (was re: quality of impl., etc.)

[Fergus Henderson]

Nick Barnes wrote:
> 
> Rumour has it that some early Lisp Machines had broken GCs.

NU-Prolog, a Prolog implementation developed at the University
of Melbourne about 10 years ago, lacks a garbage collector.
NU-Prolog is still used here, and the University of Melbourne
will still sell it to anyone willing to pay.

I guess the problem is not quite so bad in Prolog, since memory can be
recovered on backtracking.  But even so, a Prolog implementation
without a garbage collector is pretty shameful.

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