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From: aglew@urbsdc.Urbana.Gould.COM
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: HP/Rumors
Message-ID: <28200202@urbsdc>
Date: 20 Sep 88 19:39:00 GMT
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Nf-From: urbsdc.Urbana.Gould.COM!aglew    Sep 20 14:39:00 1988


>/* Written  9:29 am  Sep 19, 1988 by joh@oakhill.UUCP in urbsdc:comp.arch */
>In article <28200201@urbsdc> aglew@urbsdc.Urbana.Gould.COM writes:
>>
>>..> GNU Emacs and tags in the upper bits.
>>
>>GNU Emacs *has* been ported to machines that use a full 32
>>bits of address, like Gould's NP1 and 2 (our PN line only
>>has 24 bit addresses). 
>
>Emacs does run on NP1 but the tags problem is still there.  You can
>reproduce it by using Emacs on a large file, preferably something over
>12 megabytes. At some point the tags cause the editor to have multiple
>lines all with the same virtual address. This alias problem causes the
>editor to pretty much loose it's mind.
>/* End of text from urbsdc:comp.arch */

Well, I *am* embarassed. I'm afraid that's something that'll have to be
fixed.