Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!mit-eddie!FINGATE.BITNET!tml From: tml@FINGATE.BITNET (Tor Lillqvist) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: GNU Emacs on HP9000/840 Message-ID: <8707221749.AA27326@EDDIE.MIT.EDU> Date: Wed, 22-Jul-87 13:58:09 EDT Article-I.D.: EDDIE.8707221749.AA27326 Posted: Wed Jul 22 13:58:09 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 24-Jul-87 05:43:33 EDT Sender: daemon@eddie.MIT.EDU Lines: 11 We will get an HP9000/840 in September. Naturally, we would like to run GNU Emacs on it. Has anybody ported it already? I remember somebody saying somewhere that a port to the HP Precision Architecture will be problematic, something with the way GNU Emacs uses pointers. Another difficult thing might be unexec. Is it possible to implement the shared data feature? If not, would it be possible to play around with the System V shared memory stuff in some way, so that the Emacs users would share one copy of the pure Lisp code? tml@fingate.bitnet == tml@santra.uucp == mcvax!santra!tml