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From: consp24@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Gregg William Riedel)
Subject: Re: editor and more
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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1991 04:08:12 GMT

>2) I was just poking around milton and found the UNIX-128 files. Just
how good 
>is this? I can't imagine it being a full implementation, but even a reasonable
>facsimile would be nice. I see it has a tiny version of Emacs. Wow, that'd be
>great if it worked well. Unfortunately, I won't be able to use any of this for
>another month as I'm still in school and my computer's at home. 
>
>Any info would be greatly appreciated.
>
>--
>Jin Choi

It's terrible, don't bother with it- the emacs implementation is slow, buggy
and accepts only 8K of program space.  I'm going to have Scott Stephen 
remove it real soon.... (I wrote it, so I should know).

I've finished a complete rewrite of all the code, with the exception of one
nasty VT100 bug in the telecommunications software.  Emacs 2.00 will
accept up to 700 lines of code now, and is (relatively) bug-free.  I've
given out some pre-release copies, and I'm hearing good things (no bug
reports yet...).

No, it's not a full implementation (in 128K...?), but does support about 120
of the more popular commands.  It has an assembler, spreadsheet, emacs-style
editor, telecommunications software, a few games... enough to keep busy with.

I'll send it to milton as soon as I can figure out why VT100 works uncompiled,
but dies when compiled :(.

Gregg Riedel
consp24@bingsuns.pod.binghamton.edu
