1 Aug
2015
1 Aug
'15
6:53 a.m.
On Fri, 31 Jul 2015, Larry McVoy wrote:
EMACS = Eight megs and constantly swapping.
That's how I heard it. And
that was in the the days of 4MB Sun machines, if you had 8, holy shit,
that was cool!
Am I the only guy who looks at 32GB (gigabyte!!!) USB sticks and shakes
his head in amazement? Modern processors have more L3 *cache* than Sun
workstations had memory.
Nah.
Because of memory improvements I came up with a less dated-sounding
variation of that expansion: EMACS - Enough Memory? A Concept Strange! -
a few years back.
-uso.