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From: bdale@col.hp.com (Bdale Garbee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: emacs for an HP9000/520
Message-ID: <2220008@col.hp.com>
Date: 17 Jan 90 22:10:45 GMT
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Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division
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I have a tape in my desk with a port of GNU Emacs v17 to the s500.  We ran it
for about three days on a 550, then gave up because the load time was
intolerable.  The bits came from somewhere in Holland, I'd have to unload the
tape and look at a Readme to remember where, though.

What happens is that you're left with the C code working fine, but needing to
load all of the lisp code every time you start up Emacs, unlike the normal
situation where you load the default lisp code as part of the build process,
then dump and "undump" to get an executable image with the list structures
pre-loaded.

You really don't want it.  I still have a 550 that I work on at times, and it
hasn't been worth loading the tape for me.

Bdale