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From: FYS-MA%FINTUVM.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Matti Aarnio)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: ELLE vs. MICROEMACS?
Message-ID: <920@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 3 Jan 88 11:45:42 GMT
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>Has anyone tried porting MICROEMACS into the MINIX environment and
>compared it with ELLE? ...
  ....
>I've mentioned this program to Dr. T, and he expressed several
>concerns, including ease of port, small model limitations, linkability
>in the MINIX world, maximum size of files in both individual buffers
>and total, and whether the buffers are cached as ELLE does.  I don't
>have those answers.  Maybe somebody else does?
>
>--Frank

  I have some:

  I use uEMACS as THE ONLY editor in our laboratory (hmmm... TurboPascal
has its own, but I use it rarely).

  I don't have direct test-results about porting uEMACS to MINIX, but
what applies to MSDOS in this respect can be compared directly.

  I DID TRY TO COMPILE uEMACS ONCE ON SMALL-MODEL, RESULT:
IMMEDIATE CRASH...  Reason: Binary code over 90 k bytes...

  To port uEMACS on system, where there isn't this (my opinion) stupid
64k segmentation limits, it is really simple.  (With Memory Management)

  Linkability is simple question, it has lots of features to be used
to compile for various computers -- including TERMCAP for minis...
Your problem is to provide proper version of system libraries (with
your compiler).

  uEMACS has one "nasty" limitation:  It can edit just as much as
fits into your main memory -- not alike ELLE.
This limit has zapped me some time -- tail off from abt 1MB file, left
only abt 500kB...   I think I will get ELLE as my other editor --
also for Amiga2000 (1.5MB core & expanding)

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