katz@ISI.EDU (Alan R. Katz) (04/18/91)
More on previous post about how cheaply can I run GNU Emacs at home: Many have pointed out that used Sun 3's are real cheap nowadays, but I meant how cheap could I get a NEW system for that will run GNU Emacs? Also, how about labtops? Alan
stevea@locus.com (Steve Anderson) (04/18/91)
Does anyone know if GNU Emacs will run on the ($100) Coherent UNIX? -- -Steve A. Anderson I do not speak officially for Locus or IBM, just me. stevea@locus.com LPF member ...{uunet|ucla-se|sequent}!lcc!stevea
stevea@locus.com (Steve Anderson) (04/23/91)
*** David had problems posting, so I am forwarding this: *** Does anyone know if GNU Emacs will run on the ($100) Coherent UNIX? I kind of doubt it. Coherent only supports processes up to 64k with up to 64k of data (unless they've changed something I don't know about). I have ported Emacs to a variant of Minix (Prentice Hall). The amount of work required to get it working is excessive though (must apply complicated patches to build the 386 version of the kernel, cross compile gcc over to it from something else, and then hack both Emacs and the Minix kernel to death). I was able to get Emacs up and running in a couple of days. Some features were missing (shells, in fact I couldn't even spawn a shell with ^Z because the os has not VM and there wasn't enought memory to fork) but it worked quickly. David Brown dbrown@ucsd.edu -- -Steve A. Anderson I do not speak officially for Locus or IBM, just me. stevea@locus.com LPF member ...{uunet|ucla-se|sequent}!lcc!stevea