20:57:03jcowanIf there had been a SBCL-class compiler for CL in 1987, then GCC-in-CL might have been feasible. But CMUCL was only running in MacLisp at that point.
20:58:27jcowanthe earlier compiler was running on the Perq and on MIPS machines, but was certainly not suitable for writing a general purpose C compiler in, not to mention a portable one
7:30:06beachGenerating an executable SICL system from its source code.
7:30:45beachThe procedure will be similar, I imagine, creating a bootable image.
7:31:52beachThings are a bit involved because of some fundamental decisions I made, and the purpose of which were to give me a more maintainable system.
7:34:41beachI firmly believe that the system code is simpler because of the way I decided to do it, i.e. start by building the MOP classes and generic functions.
7:36:02shka_is there some document describing what closos is supposed to be?