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From: cjeffery@cs.arizona.edu (Clinton Jeffery)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: msdos GNU emacs?
Message-ID: <906@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 19 Feb 91 23:24:14 GMT
References: <1991Feb19.204358.16742@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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From article <1991Feb19.204358.16742@sbcs.sunysb.edu>, by cbrown@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Charles T Brown):
> 
> Freemacs is really the best thing out so far; but the problem is, it
> is incredibly slow...

Gee, Freemacs is hand-coded in 8086 assembly language!  In what way
is it slow?  Russ Nelson's program is (in my opinion) a high-quality
piece of art; I only tossed it out because I wasn't willing to learn
its (weird) extension language...
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