[3153] in SIPB bug reports
epoch-4.2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yandros@MIT.EDU)
Wed Sep 9 19:50:53 1992
From: yandros@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 19:50:24 EDT
To: richard@BOURBAKI.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Richard Y. Kim's message of Wed, 9 Sep 92 16:21:35 EDT <9209092021.AA04974@runge>
Reply-To: yandros@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
I have built and used Lucid Emacs 19.1. It's very good for filling
filesystems, particularly by making large files named 'core'. :-)
When/if 19.3 ever comes out, we'll almost certainly try it again,
provided we have disk space (we don't now, but might sometime soon).
As for MULE, I have heard of it - and from what I hear, it is no where
near ready for production use yet, but may be soon. If you hear
anything else about it, though, we'll probably be interested. Right
now the sipb supports and maintains an 8-bit version of emacs called
nemacs, in the nihongo locker.
In general, both of these things (mule and lemacs) only run reliably
on the sun architecture. Right now there are probably less than 20
athena-ized suns in existance (I think less than 10, honestly), and
DCNS is in the middle of the sun port. Our disk space for installed
sun binaries comes from Athena; we couldn't easily support a fully
installed sun4 tree. This means that we have some extra hair
installing random programs for the sun only. This doesn't mean we
can't do it; just that it might take a while to see results. In any
case, please don't stop asking for software you consider usefull! You
can send suggestions to both suggest@athena.mit.edu and
suggestion_box@athena.mit.edu, as well as bug-sipb, for things
specific to the SIPB locker. In particular, suggest is IS's own
suggestion list, and is usefull for us, so we can prove that an
interested market exists.
-C
