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We bought Unipress emacs before  we were  on the  net, so  we had not
heard of Gnu emacs.  However, if I had to do  it again,  I'm not sure
what I'd buy.  Unipress emacs only  works marginally  on our machine,
and Unipress is not interested in fixing it.  On the  other hand, Gnu
doesn't work on our machine at all (Masscomp).  I haven't looked into
CCA, but after having been burned by Unipress (they CLAIM  to work on
this machine), I don't know if I'd trust them anyway.  

Unipress  emacs does  work on  this machine,  to a  large degree (I'm
using  it  now), but  most of  the packages  won't, primarily because
filter-region is broken.  Thus  if you  use C  mode and  hit ESC-j to
format your file, it deletes all of  your text.   Some  of the helper
utilities  are  broken  as  well  (like   collectmail,  making  rmail
useless).  Emacs promised me a  fixed version  within 2  weeks when I
told them of these things (~June, 1985).   Needless to  say, it never
arrived.  We are a binary licensee, so I can't fix it.

Rumor has it that a Masscomp port  of GNU  exists, so  it is probably
just a matter of time before it is  merged in.   Until  then, we limp
along with Unipress.   I'm not  sure I'd  ever do  business with them
again.  

(The above is not an attack just to be nasty.   There has  been a lot
of praise  for Unipress  here lately,  and they  probably deserve it.
This account may present a more complete  picture to  those who might
be influenced in their choice  of products  by this  discussion.  Any
vendor will  have a  certain number  of dissatisfied  customers.  For
what it is worth, I'm the only one I  know about  for Unipress emacs.
Sometimes the business interests  of a  company are  better served by
hanging a few customers out to dry, so  as to  provide better service
to the rest.  It doesn't help me  any, but  you might  not have these
problems with them.)
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