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From: walter@hpsad.HP.COM (Walter Coole)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: emacs for an HP9000/520
Message-ID: <770019@hpsad.HP.COM>
Date: 4 Jan 90 17:25:28 GMT
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Organization: HP Signal Analysis Div - Rohnert Park, CA
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This might be of general interest, so I'm posting it anyway.  We have had
a number of 500 series machines and several people were interested in porting
GNU emacs, but were stopped by a number of features, not having an alloca()
was one and I recall a problem with Little-Endian/Big-Endianness.  We
eventually found JOVE (John's Own Version of Emacs) which isn't as rife with
features as GNU, but generally works quite well.  I beleive it is generally
available in the standard archives.  Performance is quite adequate on a 500,
although not as fast as a newer machine.

Not an official response.