25 Feb
2017
25 Feb
'17
5:35 p.m.
On Sat, 25 Feb 2017, Larry McVoy wrote:
On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 03:17:38PM +0100, Arno
Griffioen wrote:
Worked quite well in the 4MB DRAM available on
these cards. The later SVR4
didn't fare so well.. Paged itself to death unless you had 8 or even (gasp!)
16MB.
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.
-uso.