Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 13:04:25 -0400 From: dochawk@psu.edu To: michael@327.ca, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how much ram/cpu/swap to run emacs/xemacs effectively? Message-ID: <200105211704.f4LH4Q568183@fac13.ds.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 May 2001 09:32:05 PDT." <01052109320500.02633@h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net>
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michael meandered, > On Monday 21 May 2001 08:20, dochawk@psu.edu wrote: > "Bloated beyone machine resources"? Well, it _is_ an operating system / > religion, so it needs some horsepower. When you get right down to it, there's > nothing else happening on your machine that actually deserves those cycles, > is there? Yeah, it's not like I'm a computational economist whose simple *test* models run for hours on high end hardware . . . Oh, wait a minute . . . > "Tries to do absolutely everything"? What do you mean "tries"? LOL > "Downright hostile to the standards used by everything else"? Oh please, be > patient. In another generation or two, everything else will either adapt or > fade away... "This is Pentium of the Borg. You will be approximated. Division is futile." :) hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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