[Coco] vim for coco3 os9 is now in Genes-os9-stf

[J Arcane]

Yeah, Xlisp is the only one I know of that works anyway. I've never tried
it, because I couldn't begin to puzzle out the steps needed to get at it;
not really an OS-9 guy myself, in those days I mostly knew it as 'the thing
I have to boot to run Biosphere'.  If you get a working emulator image
running though, I'd love to play with it.

Tail recursion is tricky even on modern hardware. Clojure for instance
can't handle it at all, though most CL and Scheme implementations do it
well. I can't imagine trying to get a lot of recursion running smoothly
would be easy in only 512Kb. XD

On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Aaron <manney at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 9:52 AM, J Arcane <jarcane at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Modern Emacs is enormous, but the oldest *Macs editors ran on pretty
> > ancient machines and made for very small editors. There's no way you
> could
> > port Emacs official, but a *macs-like screen editor with the same screen
> > commands and such could probably be done. There's even precedent for a
> Lisp
> > variant running on OS-9.
> >
> > Whether it would perform well at all, I can't remotely say.
> >
> >
> You're talking about Xlisp?  I've had it working through an emulator a few
> years ago.  I should try and get it working again...  I wasn't too
> impressed at the time, though.  Recursion was, well, limited.  ;)
>
> There is something similar to Emacs around for OS-9 (without the lisp,) but
> I couldn't ever get it working correctly without it crashing about a
> million times a minute.  I was considering, though not even remotely
> seriously, trying to find an ancient version of Emacs and porting it.
>
> -M.
>
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