[comp.os.misc] GNU and Personal Computers with VM.

ron@topaz.rutgers.edu.UUCP (08/31/87)

Foo.  Personal computers have VM.  Most PC OS's don't use the VM that they
have which is what the problem is.  Even the 286 has the VM capability.

If RMS doesn't want to port GNU to any random architecture, so what?  RMS
didn't move EMACS to any of the zillion of wierd things that it is running
on now (He doesn't even have a CRAY).

The whole fiasco started when someone pointed out that there was one header
file that used a integral type where a pointer was called for which a EMACS
porter found.  He posted these changes eliciting a snide comment about the
architecture.  Frankly, given sufficient memory I see no reason why GNU tools
(perhaps not without effort) can't be ported to an AT.  The C compiler was
probably the hardest part.

Buy a 386.