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Re: Even more Gnus material: we made the paper!


From: Nick Dokos
Subject: Re: Even more Gnus material: we made the paper!
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 11:48:09 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:

> Experiences of the Internet
>
> Joshua A. Braun
>
> Assistant Professor of Interactive Media,
> Quinnipiac University
>
> ..., Emacs' long
> release history and modest operating requirements
> allow it to run on computers of almost any age.
>

A long time ago, EMACS was (half-jokingly) supposed to stand for "Eight
Megabytes And Constantly Swapping" (particularly among the vi crowd); it
now exhibits "modest operating requirements" that allow it to run on all
kinds of clunkers. Ah, how times change...

--
Nick





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