Sharing emacs

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From: Allan Adler
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 1990 05:33

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We are using emacs on sun3's and sparcs. When several people are using
emacs at the same time, the machine slows down to a crawl. I think that
is because multiple copies of emacs are being loaded into memory.
It seems to me that it would be more economical to have one copy of
emacs in memory and for it to accept commands from several users
simultaneously. Each user gets his own buffers which are invisible
to the other users. It is no different from having several copies
of emacs being paged in and out by a time sharing system, since
each user shares the one copy of emacs in memory on a time sharing
basis, but it is only one copy and doesn't drag the machine down.

Can this be implemented ? Is it on the agenda ?

Allan Adler
ara@lom1.math.yale.edu

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