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From: davidsen@sungod.crd.ge.com (William Davidsen)
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Subject: Re: mundane question from a new subscriber
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Date: 10 Jul 89 18:44:24 GMT
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In article <4305@tank.uchicago.edu> goer@sophist.UUCP (Richard Goerwitz) writes:
| Could some kind soul kindly send me information about
| emacs and Xenix (SCO, whatever)?  I hate to interrupt
| the flow, but this seemed the best place to post....

  The answer is: define emacs, define xenix...

Microemacs works with SCO 286 and 386, versions prior to 3.10 need one
kind of binding while 3.10 uses another. GNU emacs works on SCO 386.

If you're using SCO for 68000 (Tandy, etc), or Altos, microemacs will
work, GNU won't fit (late versions of Tandy Xenix may have fixed this).

Freemacs is MS-DOS only, but since it's in 8086 asm might be converted
to xenix if you care, mg (formerly microGNU) is supposed to run on SCO
286 and 386, but has some problems with 286 compilers before 2.3.1.

No word on SCO3.2, but I assume that it works like xenix386 and
INteractive ix.

Sorry for the complex answer, both terms you used are pretty generic.
	bill davidsen		(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM)
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