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From: abair@oakhill.UUCP (Alan Bair)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs
Subject: Building Emacs for Apollo; runs sloooooow
Keywords: emacs apollo SR9.7 DN660
Message-ID: <1410@turbinia.oakhill.UUCP>
Date: 2 Aug 88 22:15:07 GMT
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Organization: Motorola Inc. Austin, Tx
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I am having problems running Emacs on the Apollo.  I have previously
built & updated Emacs for the Sun, so I know the steps to build the
program.  I decided to try it on our Apollo and went through all the
steps and built it with no problems.  However, when I try to run it,
the problems start.

I am using Emacs 18.51 with config.h having s-bsd-4.2.h & m-apollo.h.
I made the few changes mentioned in the install notes, EXCEPT I used
the -O flag on the C compiler (that may be my problem).  The Apollo
is an DN660 with 8MB real, but <20MB free disk space (swap space
shortage mentioned in notes).  I just upgraded to SR9.7 from SR9.2.3,
is Emacs ready for that level, nothing mentioned in the install notes.

As I said the build worked fine, no errors.  Of course the Apollo
cannot build a dumped version.  So when I start it up, all the lisp
code is loaded in and then it displays the normal introduction screen.
Then things go down hill.  I can enter a single command like C-x C-b,
but it may take several minutes before it does anything.  The next
command I try just goes away, no response for >5 minutes.  If I check
cpu usage, its got >90%, looks like its looping.  At this point I 
kill it from another window and give up.

Any ideas, does it work for anyone else?

Post or e-mail, I try to look at the net once a day.

Alan Bair
SPS CAD  Austin, Texas
Motorola, Inc.
UUCP cs.utexas.edu!oakhill!turbinia!abair