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From: jules@zen.UUCP (Julian Perry)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Is there an emacs for HP9000/540 ruinning HP-UX 5.11 or 5.21?
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Date: Thu, 15-Oct-87 04:56:30 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 15 04:56:30 1987
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In article <493@kuling.UUCP> irf@kuling.UUCP (Stellan Bergman) writes:
>If so, how do I get it.  I've tried scame, uemacs and gnuemacs. The first
>bombs out, the second doesn't compile and the third needs a major revision
>in the lisp part since the series 500 are stack machines (we are trying to
>rewrite gnueamcs 17.49 for the 500 and no major problems yet.  It will take
>time, though until we're done - if ever).
>
>HP-UX is said to be SYSV SVID compatible. God only knows...
>
>Bo Thide'
>Swedish Institute of Space Physics, S-755 90 Uppsala, Sweden
>UUCP:  ...enea!kuling!irfu!bt

We've traded in our 500's now (for an 840), but we did have GNU-EMACS
17.4x running quite happily - though it was a REAL STINKER to get
working.

Preloading does not appear to be possible due to the different
architecture on the 500.  GNU-EMACS loads VERY slowly if you don't
preload it.  The one possibility I was thinking about was to create some
shared memory for the section of data which normally gets merged in with
the code and made sharable.

The strange pointers a 500 uses cause alot of trouble but I did succeed
in making it work.

If you want to see where I got to then I could probably send you a bunch
of patches (or a cartridge tape) for making the version I had at the
time (which is not the latest).

Has anyone out there sussed preloading on a 500?

Jules

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