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- From: me@dude.pcs.com (Michael Elbel)
- Subject: Re: status of the EMU project
- Organization: PCS Computer Systeme GmbH
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 12:45:02 GMT
- Message-ID: <me.726756302@dude>
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- In <9301071325.ZM2245@boggs> dbl@visual.COM (David B. Lewis) writes:
-
- >I've been looking at the EMU terminal emulator package on export. It's labeled
- >"alpha release" and is dated 10/91.
-
- >I've been unable to contact the folks at emu@pcsbst.pcs.com. Does anybody know
- >the status of this project?
-
- That's weird. I've received a couple of letters to the mailing list
- during the last months. Are sure your mailsystem is set up properly?
- If I read visual.com's MX record right, you want to be contacted
- through relay[12].uu.net. If your outgoing mail takes the same
- route, there should be no problem to get mail through to us.
-
- Anyways, here's the status of emu.
-
- - It started out as a PCS project in '90 with Jordan
- Hubbard, Tom Bagli and me working on it.
-
- - The project later was canceled and we were allowed
- to give it out for free. We continued work in our
- own time.
-
- - We put it on the R5 contrib tape but didn't have
- support for very many machines ready that's why
- we called it alpha.
-
- - Tom and Jordan left PCS last year but Jordan and
- I are still working on emu although neither of
- us can spend much time on it since we are highly
- occupied by our normal work.
-
- - I want to get out a new release since summer last
- year that mainly has support for more OS-dependant
- pty implementations but haven't managed to do it
- yet for lack of time and Jordan's hope to get the
- SUN pty stuff to work properly under all circumstances.
-
- As is, it works quite fine for SYSV or POSIX systems, I'm using
- emu every day as my default terminal emulator. With it's built
- in "lean and mean" emu emulation it's even smaller than the
- old xterm and I like the blinking text and cursor (ok, enough
- advertising ;-)
-
- So if anybody is REALLY interested in the new stuff and is willing
- to spend some time with the code as is (we especially could need
- help on the pty side for SUNs, since Jordan is quite frustrated
- already and starts to doubt his programming skills ;-), I could
- send out the code by mail. I don't want to put it on export,
- however, until I've got it cleaned up better.
-
- Michael
-
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- Michael Elbel - me@dude.pcs.com | Fermentation fault (coors dumped)
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