[net.emacs] Minimacs

mark%gymble@sri-unix.UUCP (09/15/84)

From:  mark@gymble (Mark Weiser)

I just saw an ad for Minimacs from UniPress (who also sell Gosling #264
Emacs).  Price for minimacs is given as $375/binary, $795/source.
The ad says:
	-Faster and smaller model Gosling emacs available for Unix.
	-Full screen editing with multiple windows.
	-Full EMACS macro capability and keybindings.
	 Communicates with Unix via command execution with output directed
	 to a window.
	-Minmacs brings the powerful capabilities of the finest screen
	 editor to smaller machines.
	-Minimacs minimizes your resource load and is much smaller than the 
	 vi editor.

I am guesing that it is Gosling without MLISP, but (hopefully) with a
bunch of former mlisp functions coded in C instead.

I could sure use an emacs that would fit on my pdp-11/44.  Anyone used this?

lepreau@utah-cs.UUCP (Jay Lepreau) (10/03/84)

Sounds like 'jove'-- wouldn't be surprised if Unipress is trying to sell
that public domain program.  It's a nice little emacs, and we use it for
our "transient" editor to run under mail, or dired, or whatever, when
instant startup is essential.  It also runs on 11's.

Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs, written by Jonathan Payne, late of
Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School.  Rumor has it that he's gone to
college, too bad to see such talent wasted.

z@masscomp.UUCP (10/04/84)

When I talked to the Unipress people last spring, they said that
Minimacs was just the normal Unipress Emacs with Mlisp stripped out,
and with a number of basic Mlisp functions moved into the C code.

	Steve Zimmerman