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From: higgin@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Emacs from unipress
Message-ID: <565@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 3-Aug-86 14:05:55 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug  3 14:05:55 1986
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References: <2835@caip.RUTGERS.EDU> <2688@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom)
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In article <2688@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> hga@mit-eddie.UUCP (Harold Ancell) writes:
>We aren't going to \streamline/ it---the port will be of the full 2.10
>(or later) Unix version.  What I am working on right now is a
>self-paging system that will let all the versions of Unipress Emacs run
>reasonably on non-virtual memory machines.
>
>The sources are moby, ~ .9 MB, but they compile down to a 250K or so
>image (generic 68K pcc compiler.)  We should be able to slim it down a
>bit further, and the self-paging system will allow you to specify how
>much additional memory to use for buffers, electric-c mode, etc.
>
>Note: We're doing the Amiga port mostly out of love for the Amiga (it's
>the personal computer preferred by two out of three Unipress technical
>staff members...) and it will take a while to do correctly, but it will
>be affordable and spiffy when we do get finished with it.
>
>					- Harold
>
>uucp: {seismo,allegra,ihnp4}!topaz!unipress!hga
>arpa: hga@mc.lcs.mit.edu

I do like Emacs, but 250K for an editor on the Amiga?  It would be useless,
even off a hard disk.  It would take at least 15 seconds to load (not just
due to transfer, but all the seeking, because it would not likely be all
neatly placed on the disk).

The Commodore version of Emacs is ~60K and takes 7 seconds to load off
floppy.  My version (pretty whittled down, I must confess, because I want
it to load fast) loads in 3 off floppy, 1.5 off RAM: and 2 off my hard disk.
In a development environment (for me anyway) it gets very frustrating waiting
for an editor to load!

Comments?

	Paul Higginbottom

Disclaimer: I do not work for Commodore, and my opinions are my own, and I
probably won't be around to see any replies.