wunder@hp-sde.UUCP (06/09/88)
What I need is to see (in print) that someone is really running Emacs on this machine. Also any problems you might have had installing it. From my *scratch* buffer (in Lisp Interaction mode): (emacs-version) "GNU Emacs 18.49.10 of Fri Apr 22 1988 on hp-sde (hpux)" hp-sde is an 840 running HP-UX 2.0. Lots of people inside HP use GNU Emacs. I haven't compiled GNU Emacs on the 800, but we do send changes back to FSF. It may be that the unexec.c in 18.51 doesn't compile right up, but I'm sure somebody around here can help. If nothing else, we can certainly get 18.49 binaries out to you. wunder PS: You don't need release 2.0 to run GNU Emacs.
okamoto@hpccc.HP.COM (Jeff Okamoto) (06/09/88)
We are running Unipress emacs on a 9000/840. I didn't do the port, but as I recall, we had only very minor problems (if any) in getting it to run. The one thing that I do recall is that the Makefiles had to be tweaked for the installation process. Jeff Okamoto HP Corporate Computing Center (415) 857-6236
bd@hpsemc.HP.COM (bob desinger) (06/11/88)
> What I need is to see (in print) that someone is really running Emacs > on this machine. Also any problems you might have had installing it. echo "I'm running Gnu 18.51 on my Series 800" | lp (Har de har har. That bd is some funny guy, eh?) It wasn't that hard to bring it up. Like wunder said, we ship our changes back to the FSF; Richard Stallman picks up almost all of them. The newsgroup comp.emacs regularly contains Gnu/800 hints and flames. > It may be that the unexec.c in 18.51 doesn't compile right up, but I'm > sure somebody around here can help. I have a better version than the one shipped with 18.51, and I got permission from its author to post it so you should be seeing it soon on comp.emacs. The stock one compiles okay, but I got it to dump core after 15 minutes. (It may have been a defect, noticed also on the Iris, with sign extension in the XUNMARK lisp-emulation code.) This new one has worked fine for about two or three weeks of daily beating. > PS: You don't need release 2.0 to run GNU Emacs. That's true, although 2.0 makes it easier to bring up later versions of Gnu Emacs. (The optimizer is better, for one thing.) But your system will probably arrive with 2.0 on it anyway, and Stallman will have probably released 18.52 or more at the rate he's going. -- bd