Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 18:02:26 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Paul Derbyshire <ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Which is better... EMACS or RHIDE? [Shameless RHIDE plug]
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On 5 Aug 1997, Paul Derbyshire wrote:

> Dim Zegebart (zager AT post DOT comstar DOT ru) writes:
> > Paul Derbyshire wrote:
> >> 
> >> NT. Emacs is allergic to Windows NT. NT must have stricter stuff to
> >> protect itself from memory hogs and viruses!)
> > You are not quite correct. I have port of Emacs to NT. It comes with
> > GIS system Small World and used by it like a shell.
> 
> OK, to be exact: GNU Emacs chokes on NT platforms.

More precisely: GNU Emacs compiled with DJGPP crashes on NT, due to a
bug in the NT built-in DPMI server.  (If anybody cares, I have a
source patch to work around that NT bug.)