From: utzoo!decvax!microsof!fluke!jeff
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Title: emacs from Unipress
Article-I.D.: fluke.874
Posted: Wed Apr 20 14:52:21 1983
Received: Mon Apr 25 08:34:10 1983

Does anybody have more solid information regarding the version of emacs that's
now being offered by Unipress?  I'll share some of what I learned through a
lengthy phone conversation with Fred Pack of Unipress:

	- Source licenses are now $1000; binaries are $400.  They are planning
	  a special binary-only license for the SUN workstation -  also $400.

	- Licenses are per cpu.

	- They could make special arrangements for sites with lots of cpu's,
	  but they haven't done so yet.

	- The source license includes "all sources, including mlisp".  I'm
	  still not sure he understood that I was asking if mlisp macro
	  libraries are included in the binary license.

	- They're thinking of a periodic emacs newsletter to exchange
	  information among their user community.  They are unfamiliar with
	  the emacs newsgroups on usenet and arpanet.  They do not have
	  connections to either one.

	- They didn't know what emacs version they now have.  They've had it
	  for several months and are expecting a new one very soon.

	- Their current offering "will not run under UNIX 4.1C due to technical
	  impediments having to do with mpx files".  They are awaiting updates
	  to allow subprocess communication via the new 4.1C IPC mechanisms.

	- They agree that good documentation is needed on the details of mlisp
	  argument evaluation, keymap tables, etc.  They *do not* have the
	  manpower to write it.  They might do so if they encountered a strong
	  demand from their customers.

	Jeff Stearns     ...!decvax!microsoft!fluke!jeff
	John Fluke Mfg. Co., Everett WA.  (206) 356-5064