Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!samsung!caen!uwm.edu!psuvax1!news From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: Simple UNIX editor Message-ID: <$-5H7r7k@cs.psu.edu> Date: 1 Jun 91 17:30:41 GMT References: <1991May28.091304.3332@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au> <1991May28.202926.12698@uwasa.fi> <1991May29.012942.28869@cbfsb.att.com> <1991May29.164828.6077@ohm.york.ac.uk> <&hcHf4qi@cs.psu.edu> <1991May31.093443.23588@ib Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Organization: Penn State Computer Science Lines: 26 In-Reply-To: dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk's message of 31 May 91 09: 34:43 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: sunws7.sys.cs.psu.edu In article <1991May31.093443.23588@ibmpcug.co.uk> dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk (Matthew Farwell) writes: Just because it's cheap in the States doesn't mean its cheap over here. In general, when you're converting US/Canadian prices to British prices, just replace the $ sign with a pound sign(for computer related stuff). This makes a bit of a difference, with pounds being worth about 2 dollars. This tends to work for books too, with books generally being around 25 - 30 quid each here. Fortunately, HP probably just set off a heated price/performance battle that should drive prices down. Anyway, even if memory/mips are cheap, that doesn't mean we actually have to use them all does it? What advantage would there be in not using them? You can't save 1/2 of your 15 mips every second and use them when you have a really big job. They aren't. They may be for you, but not for some of us. Give it a year or two and it will be for you too. Just in time for Emacs 19 :-). -Mike