From 2cd8320179acd8916f227deeb373cf736dc00b95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ram <ram> Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1992 00:13:03 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update for 16e. --- general-info/net-README.txt | 25 +++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/general-info/net-README.txt b/general-info/net-README.txt index fb7629392..b47d067cd 100644 --- a/general-info/net-README.txt +++ b/general-info/net-README.txt @@ -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 -- GitLab