Re: srs/s/umips.h

[Andreas Schwab]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> 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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