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From: Karl.Kleinpaste@cbstr1.att.com
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: GNUEmacs on AT&T 3B5's
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Date: Tue, 23-Jun-87 11:47:28 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 23 11:47:28 1987
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In-reply-to: aeusesef@csun.UUCP's message of 19 Jun 87 17:50:01 GMT

Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.47.3 of Sat Jun 20 1987 on cbstr1 (usg-unix-v)


aeusesef@csun.UUCP writes:
> I am trying to bring GNUEmacs (version 17.xx) on an AT&T 3B5 computer.
> It currently gets into the startup (wow!), and then dies, trying to get
> more memory.  I have convinced the system administrator to allow more
> memory (we currently can only get something like 600k).  How much should
> I tell him I need?

First, you will need quite a lot.  Our 3B2/400s are configured for 4Mb
process limits just to push the limits out beyond what we might need;
in practice, we find that a shade over 1Mb is really needed.  That's
for normal use with a bunch of buffers for largish files, rnews and
rmail, and maybe a couple of other things.

Second, DON'T use 17.anything on a 3B of any kind.  It *will not* work
with anything previous to 17.61, period.  It will only work with, say,
17.64 (the last v17) if you have the mods distributed to this
newsgroup about 9 months ago by someone whose name I regret I have
forgotten.  It may seem to work for a while, but unless you have
duplicated other work in SysV and 3B's quite carefully, it will die at
odd times with odd errors.  Get 18.4x first.  18.47 installs with no
hacking required.

Karl