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From: rhealey@ub.d.umn.edu (Rob Healey)
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Subject: Elm on PDP-11's
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Date: 26 Feb 89 23:36:50 GMT
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	Has anyone ever gotton Elm to work on a PDP-11? It must be possible
	since it'll run on '286's. I've tried getting it to compile under
	2.9 BSD but it has a few problems:

	1) 7 character limit on compiler/assembler. OK, we use shortnames.
	   Hey guys! The shortnames file is at least 250 symbols off in
	   2.1! My hands got tired adding all the symbols... OK, so now
	   we've got all those long symbols fixed up. Along comes problem
	   #2.

	2) Field names in structures are duplicated in different structures.
	   I.e. struct foo has a bar and so does struct kludge. Since my
	   hands still hurt from adding in all the shortnames stuff I gave
	   up on renaming all the structures.


	 So, has any brave and fearless soul out there ever gotton ANY
	 version of Elm to go on a PDP-11? For the uninitiated the PDP-11
	 has 64K instruction and 64K Data with overlays possible if your
	 into pain... For you purists out there, yes I KNOW about the
	 difference betwixed Split I/D and non-split I/D. There's NO WAY
	 Elm could run on non Split I/D so I'm not gunna ask...

	 Any help would be appreciated. For you developers you might want
	 to update shortnames.h and company, it is WAY behind the current code.

			-Rob Healey

			rhealey@ub.d.umn.edu