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From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Even more Gnus material: we made the paper!
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 11:48:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bn6z4g52.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87povgmihm.fsf@debian.uxu

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> 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...

--
Nick





  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-02-29 16:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-29  1:07 Even more Gnus material: we made the paper! Emanuel Berg
2016-02-29 15:45 ` Albin Ludvig Otterhäll
2016-03-02  0:22   ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-29 16:48 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2016-03-02  0:31   ` Emanuel Berg
2016-03-02  5:07   ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-03-01  6:51 ` Jonathan Groll
2016-03-02  0:44   ` Emanuel Berg
2016-03-02  2:11     ` Jude DaShiell
2016-03-02  2:36       ` Emanuel Berg
2016-03-02  2:44       ` Emanuel Berg

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