26 Feb
2017
26 Feb
'17
5:23 a.m.
On Sat, 25 Feb 2017, Larry McVoy wrote:
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.
Another acronym is Esc Meta Alt Ctl Shift...
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."