25 Feb
2017
25 Feb
'17
8:32 p.m.
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.