26 Feb
2017
26 Feb
'17
12:11 a.m.
Steve Nickolas <usotsuki(a)buric.co> wrote:
On Sat, 25 Feb 2017, Larry McVoy wrote:
On my Sun-2/50 at home and my 3-50 at work, I edited in console mode when I was
working on drivers - just because launching Sunview did take too much time and
I needed to reboot frequently. Note that I could not load the driver when I was
e.g. working on the kbd driver.
I stopped with this kind of usage once the console on sparc systems came up and
has been too slow. OK there was a hack to copy the FORTH boot code into RAM to
make it faster, but it still has been slower than the Sun2 or Sun3 machines.
Memory was definitely not a problem on Sparc systems as the Sparc systems I
used never had less than 16MB of RAM (usually 64MB). I started with what I call
a "SparcStation-1-" at home, an engineering sample delivered aprox. 9 months
before the official Sparcstation-1 launch that used a TI Floatingpoint
processor with a gate array adaptor on a piggy back rather than the official
Weitek chip.
Back in the days of 4MB SPARC machines (and 68K
machines) we joked
that EMACS stood for Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping. David
Rosenthal, a Sun DE, was known for running emacs on the bitmapped
console in terminal mode so as to not let X11 or NeWS eat up ram.
From that nickname I came up with "Enough Memory A Concept Strange", as 8
MB was no longer a lot of memory. Disclosure - never was an EMACS person, or a vi
person, pico was and nano
is more my cup of tea. That said, I can fumble my way around vi if I
absolutely must.
I do not know EMACS well enough to use it and I know vi for emergency only. I
usually use my VED (see schilytools).
Jörg
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