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January 1999, Week 4

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Re: HP3000 EDITOR(S)
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Gavin Scott <[log in to unmask]>
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Gavin Scott <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 23 Jan 1999 13:25:10 -0800
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Stan writes:
> Gavin writes:
> > So why has nobody ported EMACS to the 3000 yet?

> Eric Blossom did, back around 1981 ... on the Classic, no less!

EMACS of 1999 is slightly more complex than EMACS of 1981.  Not that
there was ever a "simple" version of EMACS.  The character mode version
ought to run quite nicely on MPE/iX, and POSIX ought to make the porting
effort reasonably manageable I would guess.

G.

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