jla@usl.UUCP (Joe Arceneaux) (06/09/85)
A couple of weeks ago someone who'd just about installed GNU emacs on
the Pyramid 90x posted a message saying that the patches (plus a
couple of re-written Pyramid routines) would soon be posted to the
net. I have not seen them, and am hence inquiring as to their
condition. Could the above-described person please let me (or the
net) know of their success with the transition?
Thanks.
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Joe Arceneaux
Lafayette, LA
{akgua, ut-sally}!usl!jlapleasant@topaz.ARPA (Mel Pleasant) (06/10/85)
The port of the latest distribution of GNU emacs to a Pyramid has just been
completed at Rutgers. We installed it less than 48 hours ago for user
testing. We're glad to say that as of yet, we haven't had one report about
it dumping core or anything else less dramatic. If all goes well, we'll be
giving all of the modifications back to Richard Stallman so that he may
maintain one comprehensive version. We expect to be able to deliver the final
modifications to Richard by the end of the week. Kudos to Vijay (topaz!vijay)
who spent much of the last 2-3 weeks banging his head against the wall getting
all of the kinks out!!! Questions can be sent directly to Vijay if there's
something specific you wish to ask. Just use the path below (replace pleasant
with vijay).......
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-Mel Pleasant
uucp: ...{harvard, seismo, ut-sally, sri-iu, ihnp4!packard}!topaz!pleasant
arpa: PLEASANT@RUTGERShedrick@topaz.ARPA (Chuck Hedrick) (06/10/85)
One of our grad students (topaz!vijay) has ported Gnu Emacs to the Pyramid. It is now up on our system under the name Gmacs, so we feel confident enough to let our users try it. But I think he still has some cleaning up before he wants to export it. This is largely trying to make the fixes as machine-independent as possible. This was by far our most difficult port so far. There were a number of very subtle problems that took hours to find. I suggest that you contact vijay directly if you really need this immediately, or are doing a port yourself. Otherwise, we do plan to feed the changes back to the Gnu project for inclusion in the distribution.
jordan@greipa.UUCP (Jordan K. Hubbard) (06/11/85)
Hmmm.. I may be wrong, but I believe it's GNU emacs I'm running on my
pyramid. We paid pyramid something like $1000 for it.. (er, I didn't
MANAGEMENT did..) It would be interesting to know if this was public
domain after all. How do you determine your version of emacs? This one
has the MIT style INFO facility all. (ala ITS)..
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Jordan K. Hubbard
@ Genstar Rental Electronics.
Palo Alto, CA.
{pesnta, decwrl, dual, pyramid}!greipa!jordan
"Ack ack!".
- William the felinehedrick@topaz.ARPA (Chuck Hedrick) (06/20/85)
The Emacs supplied by Pyramid is Unipress Emacs. It came from Unipress about a year ago, but has had work done on it by Pyramid. Their work was primarily to improve reliability (e.g. checking error returns on malloc, and checkpointing your files before coredumping if there is an error), but a few other improvements have also been made (e.g. coding incremental search in C and understanding some minor things about Pyramid's tty support). The Pyramid port of Gnu Emacs, which we did, has been finished for only a couple of weeks, so you shouldn't feel bad that you bought Emacs from Pyramid.
chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) (06/21/85)
I believe the Emacs that Pyramid supplies is Gosling/UniPress Emacs. (Can't say for sure since we didn't buy it from them, just fixed it to compile on every machine we've got without changing source code...) -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 4251) UUCP: seismo!umcp-cs!chris CSNet: chris@umcp-cs ARPA: chris@maryland