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Update for 16e.

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......@@ -33,16 +33,16 @@ FTP compressed tar archives in binary mode. To extract, "cd" to the
directory that is to be the root of the tree, then type:
uncompress <file.tar.Z | tar xf - .
As of 5/27/92, the latest SunOS Sparc release is:
16d-sun4c_41.tar.Z (6.5 meg)
16d-extra-sun4c_41.tar.Z (3.5 meg)
As of 8/6/92, the latest SunOS Sparc release is:
16e-sun4c_41.tar.Z (6.5 meg)
16e-extra-sun4c_41.tar.Z (3.5 meg)
The first file holds binaries and documentation for the basic Lisp system,
while the second `-extra' file contains the Hemlock editor, the graphical
inspector and the CLX interface to X11. The basic configuration takes 16
megabytes of disk space; adding the extras takes another 8 megabytes. For
installation directions, see the section "site initialization" in README file
at the root of the tree.
installation directions, see the section "site initialization" in the README
file at the root of the tree.
If poor network connections make it difficult to transfer a 10 meg file, the
release is also available split into 2 megabyte chunks, suffixed `.0', `.1',
......@@ -58,12 +58,6 @@ SunOS credit:
The SunOS support was written by Miles Bader and Ted Dunning.
SPARC Notes:
We have not done much SPARC-specific tuning. Performance will improve from
10-30% when we add low-level optimizations such as instruction scheduling. At
least 16 meg of memory is recommended, and more is better.
Site initialization:
To run CMU CL, place bin/ in PATH and setenv CMUCLLIB to point to lib/. The
......@@ -81,7 +75,10 @@ output is to overwrite library:lisp.core. To avoid overwriting the running
Lisp image, any existing image is renamed to `lisp.core.BAK'; this file may be
manually deleted to save disk space.
TMPFS NOTE:
SunOS/SPARC Notes:
At least 16 meg of memory is recommended, and more is better. Your system
maintainer may need to configure extra paging space for large Lisp application.
It is not possible to mmap a file in a tmpfs filesystem. If /tmp is a "tmpfs"
filesystem, then you must setenv CMUCL_EMPTYFILE to the pathname of some file
......@@ -107,8 +104,8 @@ packages: PCL and CLX. Although these packages are copyrighted, they may be
freely distributed without any licensing agreement or fee.
The release area contains a source distribution, which is an image of all the
".lisp" source files used to build version 16d:
16d-source.tar.Z (3.6 meg)
".lisp" source files used to build version 16e:
16e-source.tar.Z (3.6 meg)
All of our files (including the release area) are actually in the AFS file
system. On the release machines, the FTP server's home is the release
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