Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!spider!raft.spider.co.uk!spiderman!scottm From: scottm@spiderman.spider.co.uk (Scott Mackie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: Switching from Sun to HP: some general questions Message-ID: <1991Apr22.122717.29900@spider.co.uk> Date: 22 Apr 91 12:27:17 GMT References: <16710082@hpisod2.cup.hp.com> <1991Apr16.085958.17880@spider.co.uk> <1991Apr19.200733.422@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Sender: scottm@spiderman () Reply-To: scottm@spider.co.uk Followup-To: comp.sys.hp Organization: Spider Systems Ltd Lines: 30 Nntp-Posting-Host: spiderman.spider.co.uk In article <1991Apr19.200733.422@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>, lynch@theory.tn.cornell.edu (Tim Lynch) writes: |> 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? |> Well, a quick look at uname says $ uname -a HP-UX spiderma 7.0 B 9000/375 spiderma Not that old.... The patches that I applied were to some 68XXX assembler in the src dir... I think it was alloca.s. Obviously that doesn't apply to the 800's.... I can dig out the notes I got from HP Support if anyone's interested... Scott........... -- Spider Systems Limited Net: scottm@spider.co.uk Spider Park, Stanwell Street, Edinburgh YellNet: +44 31 554 9424 #include "Rockin' Good, Peanut!"