Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!yale!moran-william From: moran-william@CS.YALE.EDU (William Moran) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: GNUmacs on 286 (was Re: making uemacs3.9 aborts during linking) Message-ID: <28854@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Date: 11 May 88 04:56:42 GMT References: <880411165825.8.GROUT@VIKING.CAD.MCC.COM> <26974@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <66@qucis.UUCP> <246@ateng.UUCP> Sender: root@yale.UUCP Reply-To: moran-william@CS.YALE.EDU (William L. Moran Jr.) Organization: Yale University - Dept. of Computer Science Lines: 24 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. moran@{yale.arpa, cs.yale.edu, yalecs.bitnet} ...{ihnp4!hsi,decvax}!yale!moran My ambition is to write the High Life column for the Spectator; hell, I'd settle for writing the Low Life column.