software availability

[HEDRICK at RED.RUTGERS.EDU.UUCP]

I just caught up on a couple of months reading of info-pyramid.
With respect to the software that people asked about:

Gnu emacs: We did the original port.  As far as I know, the
current version of Gnu works correctly on Pyramids without
modification.

Sumacc: We did this port also.  We chose to produce binary
files that are byte-swapped, so that they would be compatible
with those produced on the VAX.  This means that you can use
library files that you import without recompiling.  We use
it heavily for development work on a 68000-based gateway.

Ingres: I ported this some time ago.  We do not use Ingres
heavily, so there could be problems that we haven't seen,
but it has been used by several database courses without
problems, and I think there is some commerical use of our
port also. Someone has told me that it will not compile correctly under
the new C compiler, but I haven't verified this.  I will work on the 4.3
version of Ingres sometime this summer, as I have time.

Caesar:  One of our students ported this a couple of years ago.
I guess I could get it back from tape if necessary.  We use
magic now.

Magic:  One of our students ported this last summer.  It was
used for a VLSI course this year.  We have not yet ported
the newest version.  As I recall, there isn't a lot to be
done in this port.

C++: I have heard of two different people who have done this
port, but have not gotten a copy of either.

The public domain software distribution previously announced
will contain Gnu Emacs, the Sumacc 68000 cross-compiler
(to the extent allowed by licensing -- I think that may mean
binary-only), the MIT 8088 cross-compiler (ditto), diffs
for magic (if the guy who did the magic port followed
our conventions well enough that I can recover them), and
diffs for C++ (if I can find them).  I'll include some form
of ingres (the issue again is licensing).
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