Mother of all xterms?

[Ken D'Ambrosio]

On 2013-05-23 16:36, Tom Buskey wrote:
> I think this is the 1st time I ever saw Low Ram use and emacs (Eight
> Megabytes And Constantly Swapping) in the same paragraph.

 From the JOKES file (or http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html), one 
of my favorites:

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And ed doesn't waste space on my Timex Sinclair. Just look:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root          24 Oct 29  1929 /bin/ed
-rwxr-xr-t  4 root     1310720 Jan  1  1970 /usr/ucb/vi
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  5.89824e37 Oct 22  1990 /usr/bin/emacs



> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Bill Freeman <ke1g.nh at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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!!!
> 
> Or are we talking PDP-11/20 class low RAM use?
> 
> (Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.)
> 
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