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Article #3693Re: GNU Emacs, memory usage, releasing
From: Craig Finseth
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1990 19:52
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1990 19:52
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In article <81@calcite.UUCP> vjs@calcite.UUCP (Vernon Schryver) writes: ... >An editor called "QED" by Peter Deutch (sp?) of Project Genie at Berkeley >used this technique on one of the first paged virtual memory systems, the >SDS-940 (later XDS-940). The 940 was one of the intellectual parents of >UNIX in general, and I've been told that ed is in some important sense a >descendent of QED. And I thought I knew about every text editor written before 1980 (:-). This just goes to support my general claim that nothing new has been done in software since 1970. (All of the virtual memory techniques we used were straight out of 1960s implementations.) Without knowing details of the SDS-940, I would surmise that its CPU / memory / disk tradeoffs (not absolute performance!) were similar to the early 1980s micros that we were developing for. Craig A. Finseth fin@msc.umn.edu [CAF13] Minnesota Supercomputer Center, Inc. +1 612 624 3375
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!uc!uh!fin From: fin@uh.msc.umn.edu (Craig Finseth) Newsgroups: comp.editors,gnu.emacs,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: GNU Emacs, memory usage, releasing Keywords: GNU emacs malloc memory working set gap editor Message-ID: <1036@uc.msc.umn.edu> Date: 4 Jan 90 19:52:47 GMT References: <1558@aber-cs.UUCP> <1025@uc.msc.umn.edu> <81@calcite.UUCP> Sender: news@uc.msc.umn.edu Reply-To: fin@uh.UUCP (Craig Finseth) Organization: Minnesota Supercomputer Center, Minneapolis, MN Lines: 19