From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: rgm@gnu.org, Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: srs/s/umips.h
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:46:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <je4ppnrbw5.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1HHYp2-0008A1-GJ@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:06:20 -0500")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> (Indeed, there's nothing in configure.in telling the compilation
> process to include this file, so it's literally unused. The file said
> that it was for running Emacs on the "Mips operating system", which
> I've never heard of.
>
> It was the operating system of Mips machines, in the 80s I suppose,
> before Mips was acquired by SGI.
Is that the same as RISC/os? That would fit in the time frame.
> It was installed at a time when users manually specified the
> configuration files to use. There was no configure file until two
> years later. Maybe umips was obsolete by the time `configure'
> was added.
mips-mips-riscos* is still supported by configure.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-15 9:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-14 3:35 srs/s/umips.h Glenn Morris
2007-02-14 9:49 ` srs/s/umips.h Andreas Schwab
2007-02-14 16:36 ` srs/s/umips.h Chong Yidong
2007-02-14 16:45 ` srs/s/umips.h Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-14 16:56 ` srs/s/umips.h Andreas Schwab
2007-02-15 5:06 ` srs/s/umips.h Richard Stallman
2007-02-15 9:46 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2007-02-16 7:46 ` srs/s/umips.h Richard Stallman
2007-02-16 17:00 ` srs/s/umips.h David Robinow
2007-02-16 17:47 ` srs/s/umips.h Andreas Schwab
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