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Under unix, MIT/GNU Scheme is invoked by typing
scheme
at your operating system's command interpreter. Under Windows, MIT/GNU Scheme is invoked by double-clicking on a shortcut. In either case, Scheme will load itself and print something like this:
Scheme saved on Monday June 17, 2002 at 12:10:46 PM Release 7.7.1 Microcode 14.9 Runtime 15.1
This information, which can be printed again by evaluating
(identify-world)
tells you the following version information. `Release' is the release number for the entire Scheme system. This number is changed each time a new version of Scheme is released. `Microcode' is the version number for the part of the system that is written in C. `Runtime' is the version number for the part of the system that is written in Scheme.
Following this there may be additional version numbers for specific
subsystems. `SF' refers to the scode optimization program
sf
, `Liar' is the native-code compiler,
`Edwin' is the Emacs-like text editor,
and `6.001' is the SICP compatibility package.
You can load the compiler by giving Scheme the --compiler option:
scheme --compiler
This option causes Scheme to use a larger constant space and heap, and to load the world image containing the compiler.