From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Even more Gnus material: we made the paper! Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2016 06:07:02 +0100 Message-ID: <87twkpbh8p.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <87povgmihm.fsf@debian.uxu> <87bn6z4g52.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1456895258 20705 80.91.229.3 (2 Mar 2016 05:07:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 05:07:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Nick Dokos Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 02 06:07:29 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aaz0T-0007tE-AG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2016 06:07:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54134 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aaz0P-0003qc-Eq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2016 00:07:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58353) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aaz0D-0003qN-Ha for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2016 00:07:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aaz09-0006YA-I1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2016 00:07:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([2a01:5e00:2:52::8]:33536) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aaz09-0006Y6-Ad for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2016 00:07:09 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id A164F9D2003; Wed, 2 Mar 2016 06:07:08 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 4SU+9Em5QP71; Wed, 2 Mar 2016 06:07:06 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (unknown [109.232.24.28]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0B0C49D2002; Wed, 2 Mar 2016 06:07:05 +0100 (CET) User-agent: mu4e 0.9.13; emacs 25.1.50.5 In-reply-to: <87bn6z4g52.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 2a01:5e00:2:52::8 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:109388 Archived-At: On 2016-02-29, at 17:48, Nick Dokos wrote: > Emanuel Berg writes: > >> Experiences of the Internet >> >> Joshua A. Braun >> >> Assistant Professor of Interactive Media, >> Quinnipiac University >> >> ..., Emacs' long >> release history and modest operating requirements >> allow it to run on computers of almost any age. >> > > A long time ago, EMACS was (half-jokingly) supposed to stand for "Eight > Megabytes And Constantly Swapping" (particularly among the vi crowd); it > now exhibits "modest operating requirements" that allow it to run on all > kinds of clunkers. Ah, how times change... I remember the terrible mistake of launching flyspell on my 8MB Pentium... The trauma is so deep I still do not use flyspell, even though I now have 8GB RAM... Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Adam Mickiewicz University