Re: Screen editor for Rainbow 100

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From: Warner Losh
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 17:42

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In article <Bwswn0.J7z@comp.vuw.ac.nz> Michael.Norrish@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Michael Norrish) writes:
>I have tried both mg, (an emacs clone), and elvis but neither seems to
>be able to handle the screen.

In ftp.solbourne.com:pub/rb/drycus/emacs39e.zip is an old version of
micro emacs, ported to the rainbow.  You might give it a spin.

Also, the latest version of micro emacs works with code blue.  I have
a hacked version of micro emacs 3.10 that uses the Rainbow's fast
video, but it has bunches of problems...

>Secondly, I was wondering what technical documentation for the Rainbow
>is available, and how easy it might be to get hold of. I have the
>MS-DOS manuals, but given the fact that there are obvious
>incompatibilities with 'standard' PCs, I would like to know what these
>are, and how I might go about working around them.

All DOS calls are the same on the Rainbow.  All the IBM-PC BIOS calls
are not.  The MS-DOS manual is about as good as it gets.  There is
some good documentation on the hardware of the Rainbow in the CP/M
version of the doc set.

Warner
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Warner Losh		imp@parcplace.COM	ParcPlace Boulder
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From: imp@solbourne.com (Warner Losh)
Subject: Re: Screen editor for Rainbow 100
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