Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!mtunx!mtune!codas!ateng!chip From: chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: GNUmacs on 286 (was Re: making uemacs3.9 aborts during linking) Message-ID: <246@ateng.UUCP> Date: 22 Apr 88 15:11:05 GMT References: <880411165825.8.GROUT@VIKING.CAD.MCC.COM> <26974@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <66@qucis.UUCP> Reply-To: chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg) Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL Lines: 16 In article <66@qucis.UUCP> dalamb@qucis.UUCP (David Lamb) writes: >Every so often someone says ``GNU Emacs won't run on segmented architectures >like the 80286.'' Can someone summarize why, briefly? Are there a lot >of data structures that have to be larger than a segment? 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. :-) -- Chip Salzenberg "chip@ateng.UU.NET" or "codas!ateng!chip" A T Engineering My employer may or may not agree with me. "I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's." -- Blake