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RE: launch a program in an arbitrary frame
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Drew Adams |
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RE: launch a program in an arbitrary frame |
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Sat, 18 Jul 2015 15:45:18 -0700 (PDT) |
> Generally, I just meant that I remember in the 1980's and 90's, people
> used to joke about Emacs being enormous. On 80's workstations, it might
> take all the memory in your machine just to run an Emacs session.
Do you remember Emacs being a memory hog back then, or do you just
remember hearing someone joke about it that way?
FWIW, I used Emacs heavily back then, on Unix workstations, Lisp
machines, and terminals (UNIX, VAX/VMS). I never found it to be
a memory hog or sluggish or bloated. Clearly, Emacs was smaller
back then too, but I've never noticed it being particularly slow.
Certainly, no one I knew ever had the impression that it "might
take all the memory in your machine just to run an Emacs session."
My recollection tells me that's a wild fairy tale. Early PCs were
limited (and didn't run Emacs), but not workstations.
I even used Emacs sometimes on a very limited baud stream over a
phone line, where you often had to fiddle with `C-l' (to refresh,
slowly, top to bottom - like watching a Surveyor image arrive from
an early moon landing) and scroll locking. In that context, yes,
the slow response could be a pain, but that was the wire, not Emacs
- anything "interactive" over such a wire was slow.
Of course, for someone used to `vi' and starting up the editor
each time even to change only a few chars, Emacs was, and is,
slow to start and use, by comparison. But such comparisons have
always been essentially apples-to-oranges.
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