Deleting Emacs support for obsolete platforms

Deleting Emacs support for obsolete platforms

[Richard Stallman]

In Emacs 23 we are thinking of deleting Emacs support for the systems
and computers listed below, because we think they are obsolete and
not useful.

If you know of a reason to keep support for any of those platforms,
please send an explanation to emacs-obsolete-poll@gnu.org.  We will
try to keep the support for platforms that people actually want.


MSDOS
Mac OS all versions before MACOSX (only MAC_OS8 seems to have a special define)

Apollo SR10.x (unexapollo.c)
Convex (unexconvex.c and m/convex.c)
Xenix (unexenix.c and s/xenix.h)
Iris  (unexmips.c m/iris4d.h   m/irist.h    s/iris3-5.h  s/iris3-6.h)
Gould (m/gould*)
Siemens machines running Sinix (unexsni.c)
Harris CXUX (s/cxux*)
ESIX, a variant of v.5.3 for the 386. (s/esix*)
Interactive (ISC) Unix (s/isc*)
Sony News (s/newsos*)
RTU 3.0, ucb universe (s/rtu.h) -- defines NOMULTIPLEJOBS
UniSoft's UniPlus 5.2 (s/uniplus.h)
UMAX (s/umax.h)
AT&T UNIX PC model 7300 (m/7300.h)
Acorn
Alliant (m/alliant*)
Amdahl (m/amdahl*)
Altos 3068 Unix System V Release 2 (m/altos.h)
Apollo (m/apollo.h)
AT&T 3b (m/att3b.h)
Aviion (m/aviion*)
Celerity (m/celerity.h)
clipper (m/clipper.h)
convergent S series (m/cnvrgnt.h)
cydra (m/cydra5.h)
Motorola System V/88 machines (m/delta88k.h) -- gcc dropped support
                              for 88k a while ago
Bull DPX/2 range (m/dpx2.h)
Dual machines using unisoft port (m/dual.h)
Elxsi machine (running enix) (m/elxsi.h)
Fujitsu F301 machine (m/f301.h)
i860 (m/i860.h) gcc dropped support a while ago
ibm ps/2 aix386 (m/ibmps2-aix.h)
ISI 68000's (m/is*)
Masscomp 5000 series running RTU, ucb universe (m/masscomp.h)
Megatest 68000's (m/mega68.h)
Whitechapel Computer Works MG1 (ns16000 based) (m/mg1.h)
Harris Night Hawk Series 1200 and Series 3000 (m/nh3000.h m/nh4000.h)
ns16000 (m/ns16000.h)
National Semiconductor 32000, running Genix (m/ns32000.h)
TI Nu machines using system V (m/nu.h)
HLH Orion (m/orion.h m/orion105.h)
Paragon i860 (m/paragon.h)
PFU A-series (m/pfa50.h)
Plexus running System V.2 (m/plexus.h)
pyramid. (m/pyramid.h)
sh3el (m/sh3el.h)
Bull SPS-7 (m/sps7.h)
m/sr2k.h
Stride (m/stride.h)
Sun 1 (m/sun1.h)
Sun 2 (m/sun2.h)
SEQUENT SYMMETRY  m/symmetry.h
Tadpole 68k machines m/tad68k.h
tahoe m/tahoe.h
targon31 m/targon31.h
Tektronix* (m/tek4300.h m/tekxd88.h)
NCR Tower 32 running System V.2 (m/tower32.h)
NCR Tower 32 running System V.3 (m/tower32v3.h)
U-station (Nihon Unisys, SS5E; Sumitomo Denkoh, U-Station E30). (m/ustation.h)
Wicat (m/wicat.h)
Honeywell XPS100 running UNIX System V.2 (m/xps100.h)


Data General's DG/UX  (s/dgux*)
Irix before version 6
osf1 (s/osf*)
SunOS4 (s/sunos*)
RISCiX (s/riscix*)
SCO 3.2v4 (s/sco4.h)
SCO 3.2v5 (s/sco5.h)
Sun's 386-based RoadRunner (m/sun386.h)
Sun3 machines (m/sun3*)
 Integrated Solutions 386 machine (m/is386.h)

Re: Deleting Emacs support for obsolete platforms

[David Combs]

Maybe there's still some sun3's still around?  In someone's
basement?  (Perhaps in MRC's basement, with the dec 10|20's? :-)

They sure sold a jillion of them!

(Various of those to-become-unsupported machines -- exist in some 
science-museums?  And even still able to work?)


David

Re: Deleting Emacs support for obsolete platforms

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 16.12.2007 um 19:23 schrieb David Combs:

> Maybe there's still some sun3's still around?  In someone's
> basement?


Could a Sun-3 or Apollo Domain at less than 20 MHz deliver enough CPU  
power for GNU Emacs 23.0.50 or 23.0.60? I'd think 25 MHz is minimum ...

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