From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Even more Gnus material: we made the paper!
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2016 06:07:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87twkpbh8p.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bn6z4g52.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com>
On 2016-02-29, at 17:48, Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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...
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-02 5:07 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
2016-03-02 0:31 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-03-02 5:07 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
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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