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From: bzs@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein)
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Subject: Re: MicroEMACS & GNUmacs compatibility?
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Date: Mon, 21-Apr-86 21:09:08 EDT
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>	Perhaps RMS would care to suggest a "minimal" subset
>	of commands that such a tiny emacs-like editor should
>	contain. This would hopefully avoid any *creeping featurism*,
>	so that at least the netland version (i.e. distributed)
>	version would remain nearly as small, and fast, and
>	*functionally portable* to many systems. [i.e. it behaves
>	identically on all systems it is ported to]
>
>oZ

Just to play the cynic, by the time such a subset was agreed upon and
implemented a 'tiny' machine will be a lot 'bigger' and faster than
the 750 GNU emacs was developed on (probably 1+MB, 1MIP.)

Other than portability problems, how far is the Atari 1040 from being
able to run GNU emacs? Assume a hard disk. That's around $2K (w/ disk)
and available now. To push the relevance, what would be a minimal SYSTEM
for running GNU emacs, rather than the other way around.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University