25 Feb
2017
25 Feb
'17
11:43 p.m.
I remember in 1991 noticing suspiciously high load activity on a workstation of an
engineer on vacation. Turns out he had just left EMACS running.
On Feb 25, 2017, at 12:40 PM, Nemo
<cym224(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 25 February 2017 at 09:32, Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 03:17:38PM +0100, Arno
Griffioen wrote:
Ah, EMACS jokes (though this be off-topic)! I remember one cartoon,
which I cannot place, of someone at a terminal and a platter flying
through the room having broken free from the drive pack, the caption
reading "EMACS tends to hit the disc a little too often."
N. 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.