From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Deleting Emacs support for obsolete platforms Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:04:34 -0500 Message-ID: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195646761 23900 80.91.229.12 (21 Nov 2007 12:06:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:06:01 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 21 13:06:08 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IuoKr-0001Fu-5V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:05:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IuoKd-0006O5-85 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:05:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IuoJp-00069p-Sz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:04:37 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IuoJn-00068p-O8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:04:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IuoJn-00068d-BW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:04:35 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IuoJm-0008Jd-Q7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:04:35 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IuoJm-00077z-BK; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:04:34 -0500 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:49394 Archived-At: 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)