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[Richard M. Stallman <RMS at MIT-AI>]

System 85 is now released.  It appears to work reliably.
For full details, see LMDOC;SYS85 MSG.

MIT System 85 comes with microcode 122.

  Table of contents of additions to system 85 as compared to 83:
  Things you should take note of:
   [1] A new rubout handler installed by default.
   [2] There is a new compressed format for bands.
   [3] A new LOGIN syntax is being introduced.

  Things you may safely ignore:
   [A] During a QC-FILE the compile and run time flavor environments are segregated.
   [B] Flavor instantiation has been sped up, and the number of conses reduced.
   [C] Many new ZWEI features.
   [D] TV:SET-DEFAULT-FONT improved, TV:SET-STANDARD-FONT introduced.
   [E] DRIBBLE-ALL

Announcements for system 83.

  Things you should take note of:
   [0] Operational notes
   [1] File connections go away if unused for a period of time.
   [2] Flavors have been sped up considerably.
   [3] EQ hash tables have been improved.
   [4] &KEY and duplicate keywords.
   [5] Converse no longer appears by default.

  Things you may safely ignore:
   [A] New functions GETDECL, PUTDECL, DEFDECL.
   [B] DO* a sequential version of DO exists.
   [C] WITH-LOCK.
   [D] TYPECASE.
   [E] :NAMED-STRUCTURE is now allowed as a second argument for TYPEP.
   [F] PRESS:PRINT-FILE, PRESS:SPOOL-FILE and PRESS:PRINT-FROM-STREAM
   [G] Generic pathnames have been reimplemented.
   [H] Interlocking of garbage collector operations has been improved.
   [I] MAPHASH-EQUAL-RETURN
   [J] INTERSECTION and UNION.
   [K] Error level appears in error handler prompt.  EH:PDL-GROW-RATIO.
   [L] FQUERY:  :ANY as choice, and :STREAM option.
   [M] new ZWEI command SOURCE COMPARE CHANGES.
   [N] FILLARRAY creates array if first arg is NIL.