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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: EMACS on a Commodore?
Message-ID: <9127@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 22 Dec 89 03:33:26 GMT
References: <1588@uwm.edu>
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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in article <1588@uwm.edu>, jgreco@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Joseph E Greco) says:

> In article <2743@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> podop08@bingsune.cc.binghamton.edu (podop08) writes:
>>     I have heard many rumors about a version of Emacs for the Comoodore
>>64.  Can anyone substantiate
>>this rumor?  And, more importantly, can I get a copy for the C-128?

> This is highly unlikely... even a partial implementation would be extremely
> slow, and more importantly would be extremely large.  EMACS on this system
> is only 585K in size (external files excluded).

Emacs doesn't necessarily mean GNU Emacs or Gosling's Emacs.  The version of micro
Emacs (MG) I use on my Amiga here is only 92k or so.  Still a tad too large for a
C128, much less a C64.  Though certainly, if you wanted to go the trouble of 
rewriting the C code in assembler, a basic Emacs could be built for either machine.
It's not going run E-Lisp or let you run news or a shell in an Emacs window, but
it could have a good Emacsish feel to it.  I had considered porting a micro emacs
(a very old and smaller one) to the C128 way back when, but there was no C compiler
at the time, and I wasn't interested in mucking with assembler.  So I bought an
Amiga...

> jgreco@csd4.csd.uwm.edu  		Joe Greco at FidoNet 1:154/200
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