bzs@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein) (04/22/86)
> Perhaps RMS would care to suggest a "minimal" subset > of commands that such a tiny emacs-like editor should > contain. This would hopefully avoid any *creeping featurism*, > so that at least the netland version (i.e. distributed) > version would remain nearly as small, and fast, and > *functionally portable* to many systems. [i.e. it behaves > identically on all systems it is ported to] > >oZ Just to play the cynic, by the time such a subset was agreed upon and implemented a 'tiny' machine will be a lot 'bigger' and faster than the 750 GNU emacs was developed on (probably 1+MB, 1MIP.) Other than portability problems, how far is the Atari 1040 from being able to run GNU emacs? Assume a hard disk. That's around $2K (w/ disk) and available now. To push the relevance, what would be a minimal SYSTEM for running GNU emacs, rather than the other way around. -Barry Shein, Boston University
paul@osu-eddie.UUCP (Paul Placeway) (04/23/86)
I intend to work on just that (actually, I have allready started). The idea here is that microemacs should be a '90%' editor with respect to gnuemacs, ie. it should do 90% of the things that gnuemacs can do, and do them VERY quickly. I also have a working terminal description for termcap which I will be posting in the next few days (why did this get removed in the first place???). -- Paul Placeway paul@ohio-state ...!cbosgd!osu-eddie!paul
oz@yetti.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) (04/28/86)
In article <452@bu-cs.UUCP> bzs@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein) writes: > > >Just to play the cynic, by the time such a subset was agreed upon and >implemented a 'tiny' machine will be a lot 'bigger' and faster than >the 750 GNU emacs was developed on (probably 1+MB, 1MIP.) > Well, let's discuss this cynic to cynic: How long do *you* think it will take to *functionally* replace all existing Apple-][s, Trs80s, 64Ks, various z80-based cp/m systems, ordinary IBM-PCs, pdp-11s, (although 780's came about 1978, Pdp-11's are still there, and doing useful things..) etc, etc, etc.. ????? Do you really believe just because ATARI-ST is such a popular and powerful system, everybody, including your neigbourhood cabbie is junking their systems, and software just so that they can start from scratch ?? [If you do, I have this great piece of land ... :-)] I believe in *alternatives*. GNU effort is an alternative to licenced, no-source, high-priced software. uEmacs, Jove, Elle are alternatives to big, memory-hungry, disk-hungry, complex Emacses. oZ -- The best way to have a Usenet: [decvax|ihnp4]!utzoo!yetti!oz good idea is to have a Bitnet: oz@[yusol|yuyetti].BITNET lot of ideas. Phonet: [416] 667-3976