rkrebs@bambam.UUCP (Randall Krebs) (02/20/90)
/* This article closed captioned for the humor impaired ... */ From article <131986@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, by jpayne@flam.Sun.COM (Jonathan Payne): > > ... > > You can do anything in Stallman's emacs, but I will never use the > thing anyway. It's too huge. ... > > Jonathan Payne It's too huge? IT'S TOO HUGE???!!! Johnathan, I'm surprised. Your reply seemed pretty reasonable up until that statement. Maybe this was true 6 years ago when I was an undergrad and only grad students were allowed to run emacs because the VAX only had 8 Meg of memory in it, but C'MON! This is 1990. The 1-Mbit RAM's are old news and the 16-Mbit RAM's are coming. Home computers come with 4 Meg of memory and 300 Meg disk drives. My desk computer (ahem, it's a Sun 3/50) has 12 Meg in it and a "df" informs me that there is over 8 Gig of disk space on currently mounted NFS partitions. Johnathan, you work for one of the giants in the industry. How can you still believe that "small is good"? The truth is that "BIG SELLS MORE HARDWARE." You'd better start writing some memory hogs if you want to keep that cushy position at Sun. For those of you that haven't figured it out, yet: :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) BTW: Although I can't live without GNU Emacs at work, I am a very satisfied user of JOVE at home. Thanks for the editor, Johnathan! -- Randall S. Krebs | "Let it never be said that we (esunix!rkrebs@cs.utah.edu) | didn't do the very least we Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation | could." Salt Lake City, Utah (Where?) | - Arthur Unnoon