HP/Rumors

Johan Vromans jv at mhres.mh.nl
Tue Sep 6 19:43:09 AEST 1988


>From article <580 at white.gcm>, by dc at gcm (Dave Caswell):
> In article <2305 at mhres.mh.nl> jv at mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans) writes:
> .I have used an Hewlett-Packard HP9000 model 500, which has a very
> .strange memory architecture (uses non-contiguous memory
> .segments), and a real stack (which means that uninitialized local variables
> .contain a zero). Emacs cannot run on it.
>                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Nonsense, many people use Emacs on HP9000/500.

A quote from the file etc/MACHINES of the GNU 18.50 distribution:

  "The [HP9000] series 500 has a seriously incompatible memory architecture
  "which relocates data in memory during execution of a program,
  "and support for it would be difficult to implement.

Of course, "other" emacses are available for HP9000 model 500
(MicroEmacs, Jove, Scame, Unipress??).


-- 
	Johan



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