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From: bd@hpsemc.HP.COM (bob desinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Emacs on an HP 9000 series 840
Message-ID: <1250013@hpsemc.HP.COM>
Date: 11 Jun 88 00:14:08 GMT
References: <574@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: HP Technology Access Center, Cupertino, CA
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> What I need is to see (in print) that someone is really running Emacs
> on this machine. Also any problems you might have had installing it.

	echo "I'm running Gnu 18.51 on my Series 800" | lp
(Har de har har.  That bd is some funny guy, eh?)

It wasn't that hard to bring it up.  Like wunder said, we ship our
changes back to the FSF; Richard Stallman picks up almost all of them.
The newsgroup comp.emacs regularly contains Gnu/800 hints and flames.

> It may be that the unexec.c in 18.51 doesn't compile right up, but I'm
> sure somebody around here can help.

I have a better version than the one shipped with 18.51, and I got
permission from its author to post it so you should be seeing it soon
on comp.emacs.  The stock one compiles okay, but I got it to dump core
after 15 minutes.  (It may have been a defect, noticed also on the
Iris, with sign extension in the XUNMARK lisp-emulation code.)  This
new one has worked fine for about two or three weeks of daily beating.

> PS: You don't need release 2.0 to run GNU Emacs. 

That's true, although 2.0 makes it easier to bring up later versions
of Gnu Emacs.  (The optimizer is better, for one thing.)  But your
system will probably arrive with 2.0 on it anyway, and Stallman will
have probably released 18.52 or more at the rate he's going.

-- bd