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sshurr@wellesley.edu writes:
>I am seeking information from anyone who has successfully implemented
>any version of Gnu Emacs (or any emacs, for that matter) on an at&t
>3B2 computer.  Both version 17 and 18 seem to have some reference to
>this system, but do not run without extensive modification.  I got
>a version 17 system to compile and link, but it runs out of memory
>while loading LISP libraries.  Is 2mb not enough?  I also need an
>emacs for the at&t 7300 (with only 1mb).

GNU Emacs V18 is running just ducky on 3bs.  There were quite a number
of glitches in 18.26, not many in 18.30, and only 1 in 18.31 that I've
found.  It runs as well on a 3b as on any SysV VAX.  I personally have
it running on all of V.0 VAX, V.2.2 VAX (with an unexec bug; it won't
purify yet), and 3b2/400, 3b15, and 3b20.  Latest OS releases on all
3bs, I think it's V.2.2 or its 3b2 equivalent.

Our 3b{15,20} have rather large memories installed (e.g., 16Mb), but
the 3b2s have between 2 and 4Mb.  1Mb might not be sufficient,
considering that the 3b2 binary is approx 600Kb and /unix will occupy
a couple hundred Kb itself.

I also helped bring it up on an old 3b2/300.  It ran, but rewarded us
with a core dump once.  I suspect its compiler, but then it was a very
old machine with similarly old software.  More recent compilers
haven't done that to me.
-- 
Karl