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From: boylanr@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (ross boylan)
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Subject: Re: "vi" & Supercomputer Performance
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Date: 8 Oct 90 22:27:55 GMT
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vvawh@convx1.lerc.nasa.gov (Tony Hackenberg) writes:

>Does anyone know of any studies on the effect of allowing
>vi usage by many users on supercomputer performance?

>Does anyone know if there are versions of "vi", "emacs", or other
>full screen editors that are written to minimize performance 
>hits on supercomputers?

I recall that some documentation from NCSA (Crays under UNICOS) said
that it was OK to run emacs; it didn't degrade system performance.