Scheme compilers

[Mike McDonald]

>From mark@ziplink.net  Thu Sep 10 15:19:45 1998
>Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 18:20:01 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Mark Dulcey <mark@ziplink.net>
>To: reti@ai.mit.edu
>cc: kragen@pobox.com, mikemac@teleport.com,
>        crippenj@saturn.math.uaa.alaska.edu, lispos@math.gatech.edu
>Subject: Re: Scheme compilers
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>On Thu, 10 Sep 1998 reti@ai.mit.edu wrote:

>Speaking of things for the remnants of Symbolics to do: they should
>consider putting OpenGenera (the port to the Alpha) back on the market at
>a more reasonable price (perhaps one with three digits rather than five).
>Not the same thing as a free OS, but it would still be something good to
>have in the world.

  I think the whole future of the OpenGenera product is in trouble
with DEC going out of business. I think supplies of Alphas running OSF
are going to become quite scarce. I doubt there'd be many new
customers signing up for that combo, except maybe a few existing ones
who are moving up from XLs or 36XXs.

  There doesn't seem to be any attractive alternatives
either. SGI/MIPS is essentially history. Same for PARISCs. Maybe a
port to Sun Ultras is the way to go? (I wouldn't mind a Pentium port,
even if it ended up running slower than the Alpha version.)

  Mike McDonald
  mikemac@mikemac.com