From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 21 9:29:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net (h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net [24.69.46.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B46E137B43F for ; Mon, 21 May 2001 09:28:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michael@327.ca) Received: from h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net (localhost.gv.shawcable.net [127.0.0.1]) by h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f4LGW6q02674; Mon, 21 May 2001 09:32:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michael@327.ca) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Michael O'Henly" Reply-To: michael@327.ca To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how much ram/cpu/swap to run emacs/xemacs effectively? Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 09:32:05 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <200105211520.f4LFKj510712@fac13.ds.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200105211520.f4LFKj510712@fac13.ds.psu.edu> Cc: dochawk@psu.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01052109320500.02633@h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday 21 May 2001 08:20, dochawk@psu.edu wrote: > Actually, that stability is the only thing I find that distinguishes it > from microsoft products--it has the rest of the characteristics: > bloated beyond machine resources, tries to do absolutely everything, > and downright hostile to the standards used by everything else . . . "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? "Tries to do absolutely everything"? What do you mean "tries"? X/Emacs does do absolutely everything! With the correct incantation... (Escape-Meta-Alt-Control-Shift-R-M-S) ...it'll even do absolutely everything all at once. That's multitasking! That's versatility! That's entertainment! "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... M -- Michael O'Henly To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message