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From: toma@tekgvs.UUCP (Thomas Almy)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Porting MicroEmacs 3.6 to MSC
Message-ID: <1537@tekgvs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-May-86 13:58:05 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 30 13:58:05 1986
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Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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I tried applying the patches posted by Oliver Sharp (sharp@yale.ARPA) to
a copy of MicroEmacs 3.6 and managed to get it working.  Thank you Oliver!

But he is wrong on the memory utilization.  A check of the link map shows
only about 8k of static data.  That 50k stack size causes the need for
58k of data segment in the medium model, giving only 6k free.  I found
that the default of 2k for stack seems to work fine, and in fact the small
model can be used!  It is faster, but the size of files edited is quite
limited.  The solution put some large data structures explicitly in the
heap, but I am not up to doing such things (perhaps it is easier than
I think, but I haven't studied the code.

Perhaps it could buffer to disk (virtual memory)?

The next step for me is to replace the ANSI driver with one that handles
the screen directly.

Tom Almy
Tektronix
Friend of EMACS