Why LispOS?

[Chris Bitmead]

cosc19z5@bayou.uh.edu wrote:

> I would not mind working on this, but there are a few problems
> involved:
>         1) I am not using a Unix system at home, and I have
>            no desire to change.  Since many people seem to
>            think that Linux or FreeBSD should be used, this
>            may knock me out of the running (before I've started
>            I would say!).

If an portable implementation of Lisp/Scheme is chosen, I don't
see the problem in using Windows if you like. RScheme is
supposedly extremely portable, but I don't know if that extends
to Windows or not. There is talk of a Mac port at
www.rscheme.org, so you'd think if it worked on a Mac it might
either work, or be made to work on Windows. Portability might get
a bit difficult if a gui ever came into existance though.


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