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From: lynch@theory.tn.cornell.edu (Tim Lynch)
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Subject: Re: Switching from Sun to HP: some general questions
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Date: 19 Apr 91 20:07:33 GMT
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In article <1991Apr16.085958.17880@spider.co.uk> scottm@spider.co.uk writes:
>The GNU stuff especially has been a pain (I even got assembler patches from
>HP Support for Emacs 18.55) although I'm told recent releases have better
>support for HPUX.

I don't understand. We're running 18.55 on an 800 series machine and built
it with no problem.  No assembler patches needed.  What version of HP-UX
you referring to, Scott?

>Scott.........

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