cire@CLASH.CISCO.COM (06/14/88)
>> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 88 05:44:30 MDT >> From: John R. Pliler <JPLILER@simtel20.arpa> >> Subject: Information >> To: info-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu >> >> I was wondering if you are going to port GNU software (Emacs in >> particular) to the HP3000's with the MPE operating system in the >> future. >> >> John Pliler >> White Sands Missile Range >> ------- I used to work at HP at the Computer Systems Division (they make the HP3000) and later in ITG (they make the Spectrum machines). I was also involved with the port of GNU Emacs to HP's HP9000 series 800 machines. These are HP Spectrum machines running HP-UX, as SYS5 + Berkeley Unix derivative. Gnu Emacs runs just fine on the HP9000s800. As far as 3000's are concerned don't expect it soon. First there are two major flavors of 3000's these days, old and new. New 3000's are based on HP's Spectrum machines while old 3000's are the old 3000 native architecture. It would be very difficult to port GnuEmacs to the old 3000s because of the architecture. Porting to new 3000s is much more feasiable but will still probably be difficult. GnuEmacs is written assuming Unix like system calls. Someone would have to make MPE's system calls look like this or write a GnuEmacs interface layer that will all GnuEmacs to run. Both of these would involve a reasonable amount of effort. You can tell if you have a new 3000 if it is running MPE XL. If you want to do this good luck. It would probably be simpler to buy a Unix machine. -c