wtr@moss.ATT.COM (03/26/88)
This is the next in the continuing requests on porting information for SV/AT (2.3-L) A friend of mine has GnuEmacs on his ATT-3B1. He has offered to download it to my machine. Before I spent 5 hours of phone time, could someone tell me if it's at all possible to get this code running under microport? --------- Regarding GCC on SV/AT: All responses have have been negative, because of 16 bit limitation and segments :-(. Most common advice seems to be inquire into Greenhill about their C compiler. Is it out of Beta-testing yet? What do you do to be a Beta-site (I do a fair amount of large system compiling, graphics routines, etc... and would be grateful to do extra testing on a decent compiler :-). Please e-mail any info you have on Greenhill availability. --------- Last question: (gawd do i have a lot of them ! ;-) Has anyone out there with a Sperry-IT gotten the ROM upgrade, and did it make any difference in the performance of SV/AT? (ie: fewer core dumps, etc...)? Thanx for all the help! ===================================================================== Bill Rankin Bell Labs, Whippany NJ (201) 386-4154 (cornet 232) email address: ...![ ihnp4 ulysses cbosgd allegra ]!moss!wtr ...![ ihnp4 cbosgd akgua watmath ]!clyde!wtr =====================================================================
wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) (03/29/88)
In article <23842@clyde.ATT.COM>, wtr@moss.ATT.COM writes: > Has anyone out there with a Sperry-IT gotten the ROM upgrade, and > did it make any difference in the performance of SV/AT? (ie: fewer > core dumps, etc...)? What ROM upgrade? And how does the ROM cause core dumps? I was of the opinion that V/AT does not use the BIOS for anything but loading the boot block! -- /\ - "Against Stupidity, - {backbones}! /\/\ . /\ - The Gods Themselves - utah-cs!utah-gr! / \/ \/\/ \ - Contend in Vain." - uplherc!sp7040! / U i n T e c h \ - Schiller - obie!wes