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From: moran-william@CS.YALE.EDU (William Moran)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: GNUmacs on 286 (was Re: making uemacs3.9 aborts during linking)
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Date: 11 May 88 04:56:42 GMT
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In article <246@ateng.UUCP> chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>Entire buffers are held in contiguous areas.  This is not impossible to
>kludge around, if you can't escape the horrible '286 fate; but it's hard
>enough.
>
>So why hasn't it been done?  I suppose that programmers good enough to do
>this conversion have enough clout to get '386 machines. :-)
>

Also, think about what the performance of GNU Emacs would be like on a
286 machine...particularly given the sorts of compromises one would be
likely to make to get it to run in the first place. If your time were
worth anything, it would probably be cheaper to get a '386 machine
than to do the port, although it would make the person who ported
Emacs something of a legend (what price fame?) ;)



			  
			  William L. Moran Jr.
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