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From: katz@ISI.EDU (Alan R. Katz)
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Subject: Inverse question
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Date: 17 Apr 91 20:43:10 GMT
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With all of the questions about what Emacs to run under DOS, OS/2,
etc.,  I thought I'd ask the following:

Suppose I want to run GNU Emacs reasonably(**) (say, at home).  What
is the cheapest system I could buy to do it?  The new NEXT machine
will do it for about $4K (I think).  In fact GEmacs comes with the
NEXT.

Can I do it any cheaper?  Is there a way for a 386/486 + somebody's
UNIX to do it for less?


    [**reasonably here means it works well, fast user response, and I
    don't have to spend the rest of my life doing a "simple" port to
    the FOO flavor of Unix or the BAR hardware platform]
 
				Alan R. Katz (Katz@ISI.Edu)
                                USC Information Sciences Institute


P.S.,

Even though we are not supposed to recommend proprietary software,
perhaps the following comment may be excused:

Epsilon Emacs leaves out A LOT of important Emacs features (no
registers, only ONE dired buffer, no read-only buffers, etc.)