sshurr@wellesley.edu (Scott Shurr) (12/03/86)
I am seeking information from anyone who has successfully implemented any version of Gnu Emacs (or any emacs, for that matter) on an at&t 3B2 computer. Both version 17 and 18 seem to have some reference to this system, but do not run without extensive modification. I got a version 17 system to compile and link, but it runs out of memory while loading LISP libraries. Is 2mb not enough? I also need an emacs for the at&t 7300 (with only 1mb). Scott Shurr sshurr@wellesley.edu
karl@osu-eddie.UUCP (Karl Kleinpaste) (12/05/86)
sshurr@wellesley.edu writes: >I am seeking information from anyone who has successfully implemented >any version of Gnu Emacs (or any emacs, for that matter) on an at&t >3B2 computer. Both version 17 and 18 seem to have some reference to >this system, but do not run without extensive modification. I got >a version 17 system to compile and link, but it runs out of memory >while loading LISP libraries. Is 2mb not enough? I also need an >emacs for the at&t 7300 (with only 1mb). GNU Emacs V18 is running just ducky on 3bs. There were quite a number of glitches in 18.26, not many in 18.30, and only 1 in 18.31 that I've found. It runs as well on a 3b as on any SysV VAX. I personally have it running on all of V.0 VAX, V.2.2 VAX (with an unexec bug; it won't purify yet), and 3b2/400, 3b15, and 3b20. Latest OS releases on all 3bs, I think it's V.2.2 or its 3b2 equivalent. Our 3b{15,20} have rather large memories installed (e.g., 16Mb), but the 3b2s have between 2 and 4Mb. 1Mb might not be sufficient, considering that the 3b2 binary is approx 600Kb and /unix will occupy a couple hundred Kb itself. I also helped bring it up on an old 3b2/300. It ran, but rewarded us with a core dump once. I suspect its compiler, but then it was a very old machine with similarly old software. More recent compilers haven't done that to me. -- Karl