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From: mat@zeus.opt-sci.arizona.edu (Mat Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Nemacs and NeXT
Message-ID: <MAT.91Jun24071350@zeus.math.arizona.edu>
Date: 24 Jun 91 14:13:50 GMT
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In-reply-to: mrc@milton.u.washington.edu's message of 24 Jun 91 03:34:05 GMT

Mark Crispin writes: (much stuff deleted. Mat Watson)
   Mat Watson writes:
   >I need to make sure that I can port nemacs to the NeXT before
   >buying the machine.  Has anyone used nemacs (wnn, and egg) on
   >their NeXTstation?

   DANGER DANGER Will Robinson!

   There is a bug in 2.0 and 2.1 that causes the NeXT kernel to *crash*

   If, as you suggest, nemacs is going to be a primary application on
   your new machine, you may want to consider getting a cheap SUN or
   DECstation instead of a NeXT.

I went ahead and bought the NeXT when I heard that this stuff ran
on the older version.  Since then I've learned that the bug in
2.0 causes page faults, and not harmless segmentation faults.
Others who use this software under 2.0 (2.1?) say that they
are actually running the binaries they created under 1.0 without
problems.

   It may be that this is to induce those of us who use Wnn and kterm
   freeware to cough up JPY60,000 (about $435) to Canon for 2.1J instead.

That was the alternative some others wrote me about.  If one can still
use English, as well as Japanese, then that would be a good solution.

Really though, this bug in the OS should be fixed.

--Mat    mat@zeus.opt-sci.arizona.edu