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From: stevea@locus.com (Steve Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Inverse question, more
Message-ID: <23705@oolong.la.locus.com>
Date: 22 Apr 91 17:28:53 GMT
Reply-To: dbrown@ucsd.edu
Organization: Locus Computing Corp, Los Angeles
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*** David had problems posting, so I am forwarding this: ***

   Does anyone know if GNU Emacs will run on the ($100) Coherent UNIX?

I kind of doubt it.  Coherent only supports processes up to 64k with
up to 64k of data (unless they've changed something I don't know
about).

I have ported Emacs to a variant of Minix (Prentice Hall).  The amount
of work required to get it working is excessive though (must apply
complicated patches to build the 386 version of the kernel, cross
compile gcc over to it from something else, and then hack both Emacs
and the Minix kernel to death).  I was able to get Emacs up and
running in a couple of days.  Some features were missing (shells, in
fact I couldn't even spawn a shell with ^Z because the os has not VM
and there wasn't enought memory to fork) but it worked quickly.

David Brown
dbrown@ucsd.edu


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