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CLX and ICCCM
Kerry, A while back I got a note from someone at TI (perhaps you)
asking about DELPHI common lisp. At the time I asked around and came
up blank. The funny thing was that he had gotten a note from someone
he forgot at MCC ... In case you are or know who wanted the info ...
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 89 03:14 CST
From: David Schatsky <delphi!david@Sun.COM>
I work for an Italian company called Delphi. Delphi was founded in
'82 and has about 60 people working in A.I., open systems, and
distribution of various products including worstations and
supercomputers. Delphi hired me to help them become an international
company, and I'm responsible for international sales of Delphi's A.I.
products. The main product is Delphi Common Lisp, a brief description
of which I've appended to the end of this message.
Bill told me that some people might be interested in
Delphi Common Lisp for your work. What do you think?
Regards,
David SCHATSKY (david@delphi.uucp)
Delphi S.p.A.
Via della Vetraia, 11
I-55049 Viareggio, Italy
Tel: +39 (584) 395225
Fax: +39 (584) 395366
tlx: 501542 DELPHI I
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Delphi Common Lisp (DCL) is a complete implementation of Common Lisp
derived from the popular implementation from Kyoto University. It has
all of the advantages of Kyoto implementation such as:
- Complete implementation
- Robust
- small size--can run with 4MB
- good C interface--Lisp and C can be intermixed
in same file and Lisp can invoke C functions
Plus, Delphi Common Lisp has several major extensions which make it a
much more complete Common Lisp programming environment:
- Performance enhancements. DCL performs at +/- 10% of Lucid
on the Gabriel benchmarks.
- An integrated implementation of the Common Lisp Object
System (CLOS). Delphi implemented CLOS from scratch
and optimized for the data structures used in the DCL
kernel. The meta-object protocol is not yet supported.
- Multithread support for concurrency. The Multithread
primitives can also be used to implement semaphores, OCCAM
channels and other typical concurrency schemes. A small
amount of code can be written to emulate efficiently
the concurrency metaphors of other Lisps. Delphi has
already implemented extensions to CLOS to allow the definition
of concurrent synchronizable atomic methods.
- High-performance CLX interface to the X Window System.
Delphi's CLX performs as much as 40 times faster than the
public domain versions floating around.
Pricing of DCL is good, at around $2000 for the Sun 3. It currently
runs on all the Suns (2, 3, 4, 386i) and Apollo DN. A version for
386/Unix is in beta test. Ports are in the works for other workstations
(HP, IBM, Sony), as well as new architecture machines like NCube,
Multiflow, and Cray.
;rob
Robert C. Pettengill, MCC Software Technology Program
P. O. Box 200195, Austin, Texas 78720
ARPA: rcp@mcc.com PHONE: (512) 338-3533
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