Mother of all xterms?

Tom Buskey tom at buskey.name
Thu May 23 16:36:36 EDT 2013


I think this is the 1st time I ever saw Low Ram use and emacs (Eight
Megabytes And Constantly Swapping) in the same paragraph.


On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Bill Freeman <ke1g.nh at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
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>> Back in the day, running telnet inside emacs was faster than in xterm
>> because of emacs' terminal optimization.  Important when you shared a 56k
>> link.  Or 2400 baud modems.
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>> Honestly, I'm at the point I just want low ram use, scroll back lots of
>> lines, emulate vt100 with line drawing and increase/shrink font size
>> quickly.  Oh, and installed on all the Unixen I use.
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>> Low RAM use?  Then you want emacs.  No matter how many terminals you need
> you only need one emacs.  And you don't have to start any of those pesky
> vim instances either - you get file editing for free!!!
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> Or are we talking PDP-11/20 class low RAM use?
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> (Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.)
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