thomas%utah-gr%utah-cs@sri-unix.UUCP (01/22/84)
From: thomas%utah-gr@utah-cs (Spencer W. Thomas) We have the Apollo emacs. It works fine, most of the time, but there are some limitations you should be aware of. I have been in communication with Mark Krieger of UniPress about these (in fact, he told me about a couple), and while they are willing to fix them when they can, they are having problems getting an Apollo to do development (they had one for 2 weeks for the initial port, but haven't had one since). It has many of the storage management bugs that I have found in the Vax version, as well as an AUX limitation of 128k bytes total from malloc (this is a "soft" limit, but I think you need to recompile emacs to increase it). Furthermore, there appears to be a problem with termcap, it bombs out after a while if your window is too big (larger than 24 lines?). Finally, it is an SR6 port. If you have SR7, you probably need to recompile it (I haven't recompiled ours yet). One problem is that SR7 handles ^Q in a raw window differently (i.e., it causes a fault). Since that is all handled by termcap, I expect that recompiling should fix it. We also found that the bottom line of the window didn't display (this is the mode line) and applied the simple fix of enlarging the minibuffer window. =Spencer