Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!caip!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga Subject: Re: Re: Emacs from unipress Message-ID: <572@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Aug-86 16:11:28 EDT Article-I.D.: cbmvax.572 Posted: Mon Aug 4 16:11:28 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Aug-86 21:50:18 EDT References: <565@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 44 > > In article <2688@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> hga@mit-eddie.UUCP (Harold Ancell) writes: >>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. >> >> - Harold >> > 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). ... > > 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. > There's an EMACS I use whenever I have to use VAX/VMS, which takes almost 15 seconds to get going on the VAX. The thing about it is that its a fantastic version of EMACS and does everything I want it to. And since it starts up as a separate process, I only start it once. I used a very similar setup on a DEC-20 running TOPS and a TECO-based EMACS (at CMU). The startup time for both of these is trivial; you only start them on rare occasions. There's no reason not to expect that a 256K EMACS on an Amiga with a Meg or two expansion RAM won't recieve a similar kind of treatment, even if its a bit slow for a 512K Amiga and floppies. -- /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Dave Haynie {caip,ihnp4,allegra,seismo}!cbmvax!daveh "I don't feel safe in this world no more, I don't want to die in a nuclear war, I want to sail away to a distant shore And live like an ape man." -The Kinks These opinions are my own, though for a small fee they be yours too. \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/