[ale] Emacs stinks, Vi is for wimps

[tfreeman at intel.digichem.net]

On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Vernard Martin wrote:

> Jim Lynch wrote:
> 
>  Of coruse, nowadays you can't do much of anything in 8MB of RAM. 
> Although I do remember running linux in 8MB of ram. With X. And it 
> didn't swap *that* much. At least until I started up emacs. :-)
> 

And in the interest of starting the bragging match - what _was_ the 
smallest lightest machine with X you have seen Linux on?? I seem to recall 
a friend getting Linux going in 2MB(386SX proc) but not X. I had 6MB 
going, but with flakey ram up high, X would crash the machine so I don't 
count.


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