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From: jr@PIZZA.BBN.COM (John Robinson)
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Subject: Re: GNU Emacs on Cray X/MP?
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Date: 1 Sep 88 20:43:32 GMT
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Marty Fouts <fouts%lemming.nas.nasa.gov@BBN.COM> said:

>   Better yet
> might be supdup with GNU split between the front and back end, ala
> Pike's editor on the BLIT, but I haven't measured that, so I am only
> speculating.

How about X client code on the Cray, with server on a Sun or uVax?
Emacs already includes X support.  The WS is fast enough at the screen
updating, and the super would just send lots of lines of new screen.
I/O interrupts happen at packet (line) boundaries rather than every
character on the Cray (right?).

Of course X is probably just the supdup of the '90's :-).

/jr
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