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In article <&hcHf4qi@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
>In article <1991May29.164828.6077@ohm.york.ac.uk> nigelm@ohm.york.ac.uk (Nigel Metheringham) writes:
>
>   I end up with the problem, however, that gnu emacs is a >1MB image,
>   and does not do a great deal for the system's performance (well
>   actually it does - a dozen invocations of emacs slogs the
>   performance drastically).  Thats why we only make Micro-EMACS
>   available for student use.
>
>I wonder when computer time will become less important than the user's
>time?  What kind of equipment are you using over across the pond?  The
>main binary of Emacs is shared among all the users so you are going to
>have 12MB images for 12 users.  How much does RAM cost in the UK?  We
>just bought 16MB of RAM for our NeXT Cube for $640.  Hell, a 68040
>NeXTstation costs $3250 and a SPARC SLC costs $2700 at educational
>prices.  That's enough mips to make me add 'alias vi emacs -nw -q' to
>my .cshrc.

Just because it's cheap in the States doesn't mean its cheap over here.
In general, when you're converting US/Canadian prices to British prices,
just replace the $ sign with a pound sign(for computer related stuff).
This makes a bit of a difference, with pounds being worth about 2
dollars.  This tends to work for books too, with books generally being
around 25 - 30 quid each here.

Anyway, even if memory/mips are cheap, that doesn't mean we actually
have to use them all does it?

>   Emacs is fine as long as you a prepared to pay the price for having
>   a complete operating system written in lisp within your editor!
>Memmory and mips are cheap.  What's the big deal?

They aren't. They may be for you, but not for some of us.

Dylan.
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