Date: Sun, 18 Dec 1994 16:31:28 +0900
From: Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp>
To: Jochen DOT Roger DOT Hayek AT ACM DOT org
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: OEmacs

   From: Jochen DOT Roger DOT Hayek AT ACM DOT org (Jochen `Roger' Hayek)
   In article  elf AT netcom DOT com (Marc Singer) writes:

   >Does OEmacs run with Windows?  Is it a port of Emacs, or is it
   >someone's Own Emacs? 

   There are several versions of oemacs.

It's a port of GNU Emacs 19.19.  Very full-featured, except that like
all DOS Emaxen it cannot do asynchronous processes.

   BTW the name comes from dOs - and the `Dī from Dos was already used
   by demacs.

Oh, I thought the 'D' from 'Darryl' didn't work 'cause of DEmacs, so
he used the 'O' from 'Okahata'.

   None of them is running within original MS-Windows.

   But at least one of them runs with desqview/x - a commercial x-server,
   that in turn runs within MS-Windows.

Bzzt.  MS-Windows runs within DESQview/X.  Windowze is far too
impolite to allow another operating system to operate within it.
However, this is no longer very useful, as most useful Windowze
programs that do *not* require enhanced mode have decent X Windows
substitutes, and stuff like Mathematica that *do* require enhanced
mode won't run within DESQview/X, which only permits Windows real and
standard modes.
    There are two versions that run within DESQview/X.  The vanilla
DOS + DJGPP + hacked GO32 v1.10 works fine.  I used to use that.  Then
I switched to Linux.  There is also an X Windows version which is
specific to the DJGPP + DV/X environment that gives colorization and
frames and menuing and X Windows selections and all that good stuff,
but I have been unable to keep it from crashing my system.

   But I heard it's not that cheap,
   and I did not hear about an evaluation version of it.

DV/X costs about $150 on the American market I believe.  You can get
info about it from "info AT qdeck DOT com".

    --Steve