Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utcsri!qucis!dalamb
From: dalamb@qucis.UUCP (David Lamb)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: GNUmacs on 286 (was Re: making uemacs3.9 aborts during linking)
Message-ID: <66@qucis.UUCP>
Date: 16 Apr 88 17:51:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: qucis.66
Posted: Sat Apr 16 13:51:50 1988
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Every so often someone says ``GNU Emacs won't run on segmented architectures
like the 80286.''  Can someone summarize why, briefly?  Are there a lot
of data structures that have to be larger than a segment?  I have friends
who go to a lot of effort to fit large (software-paged) data structures
into small machines;  I'd have thought the distinction between segmented
and non-segmented versions of data structures could be hidden behind a
layer of macros.