Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Tradeoffs Message-ID: <.5X3-ZB@xds13.ferranti.com> Date: 4 Jun 90 16:18:43 GMT References: <640@sibyl.eleceng.ua.OZ> <2662CE6C.3E68@tct.uucp> <26798@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <266576A7.6D17@tct.uucp> <9494@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <1990Jun3.041822.13548@utzoo.uucp> <27416@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 17 In article <27416@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> pjg@acsu.Buffalo.EDU (Paul Graham) writes: > now i'd like to ask what would gnu emacs look like if henry wrote it > but he probably wouldn't; so a question. has someone written something > comparable to gnu emacs that is significantly smaller? There are several full-featured fully programmable (as in... they include a programming language at least as capable as Gnu-lisp) editors that run in well under the full 640K available in an IBM-PC. Just what does GNU Emacs provide over things like Jove other than that? > has someone > written something comparable to x11r4 that is significantly smaller? There are several windowing systems that provide most, if not all, of the functionality of X that are significantly smaller. NeWS itself is a large package, but it keeps that size hidden from individual programs and in the server. -- `-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. 'U` Have you hugged your wolf today? @FIN Dirty words: Zhghnyyl erphefvir vayvar shapgvbaf.