From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 21 10: 4:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19C0137B42C for ; Mon, 21 May 2001 10:04:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4LH4Q568183; Mon, 21 May 2001 13:04:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200105211704.f4LH4Q568183@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: michael@327.ca, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how much ram/cpu/swap to run emacs/xemacs effectively? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 May 2001 09:32:05 PDT." <01052109320500.02633@h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net> From: dochawk@psu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 13:04:25 -0400 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 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