[ale] Emacs stinks, Vi is for wimps

[Geoffrey]

tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:
> 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.

Well, if you're going to limit it to Linux, 486 with 8mb.  But I've had 
it running on an AT&T 3b2 300 with 4 mb.

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Until later, Geoffrey