katz@ISI.EDU (Alan R. Katz) (04/18/91)
With all of the questions about what Emacs to run under DOS, OS/2,
etc., I thought I'd ask the following:
Suppose I want to run GNU Emacs reasonably(**) (say, at home). What
is the cheapest system I could buy to do it? The new NEXT machine
will do it for about $4K (I think). In fact GEmacs comes with the
NEXT.
Can I do it any cheaper? Is there a way for a 386/486 + somebody's
UNIX to do it for less?
[**reasonably here means it works well, fast user response, and I
don't have to spend the rest of my life doing a "simple" port to
the FOO flavor of Unix or the BAR hardware platform]
Alan R. Katz (Katz@ISI.Edu)
USC Information Sciences Institute
P.S.,
Even though we are not supposed to recommend proprietary software,
perhaps the following comment may be excused:
Epsilon Emacs leaves out A LOT of important Emacs features (no
registers, only ONE dired buffer, no read-only buffers, etc.)