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Article #8053Re: GNU-Emacs on Compaq 386 / SCO Xenix?
From: Terry Hull
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 1988 14:55
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 1988 14:55
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In article <79@adobe.COM> vonzelow@adobe.UUCP (Jon von Zelowitz) writes:
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>My experience with Unipress EMACS on a 386 makes me suspect that
>GNUmacs would also be dog-slow. I am now a happy user of Epsilon,
>an efficient reimplementation of The Concept.
I use GNU Emacs on a PC Limited 286-8 with an Intel Inboard/386 in it.
I find that Emacs is not as fast as a DOS editor like Brief, but it's
speed is not a problem for me. It reads files, writes files,
searches, scrolls and moves to the top and botttem of the file all
with acceptable speed. It does slow down when you ask it to reindent
a large C program, but I have not found that to be a problem either.
Yes, there would be a large problem with it's speed if you did not
have enough memory, but with 3 Mb on a single user system, I do not
have any complaints.
--
Terry Hull Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Kansas State University
INTERNET: terry@eecea.eece.ksu.edu Manhattan, KS 66502
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!deimos!eecea!terry From: terry@eecea.eece.ksu.edu (Terry Hull) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: GNU-Emacs on Compaq 386 / SCO Xenix? Keywords: Not so slow. Message-ID: <490@eecea.eece.ksu.edu> Date: 8 Dec 88 14:55:52 GMT References: <44985@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <79@adobe.COM> Reply-To: terry@eecea.eece.ksu.edu (Terry Hull) Followup-To: comp.emacs Distribution: na Organization: Kansas State University, Manhattan Lines: 22