EWBY@CORNELLA.UUCP.UUCP (02/26/87)
Does there exist, or is someone working on, a version of Gnuemacs to run on MS-DOS machines ? David Dean (EWBY%CORNELLA.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU) Cornell Computer Services Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14850
rusty@weyl.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (02/27/87)
Speaking of emacs for MS/DOS, how about a version of Gnu Emacs for CPM/80? We have a couple of CPM machines around here and it would be nice if we had emacs for them. -------------------------------------- rusty c. wright rusty@weyl.berkeley.edu ucbvax!weyl!rusty
jbs@mit-eddie.UUCP (02/27/87)
In article <1033@cartan.Berkeley.EDU> rusty@weyl.Berkeley.EDU (Rusty Wright) writes: >Speaking of emacs for MS/DOS, how about a version of Gnu Emacs for >CPM/80? We have a couple of CPM machines around here and it would be >nice if we had emacs for them. If this is a joke, it's not very funny, and is a waste of net $. If it isn't, and for the benefit of those who don't realize why it should be... The size of GNU Emacs at startup is almost 600K, and after loading a few packages, and editing a few files (i.e. buffer space), 1.5 Meg is closer to what you'll need. It might be possible to get an MSDOS version up on a system with 640K, but this would require a lot of work (if it is even possible). A more practical solution (it might even work on CPM!) is MicroGNUEmacs (or other MicroEmacs variants), available from mod.sources. Jeff Siegal