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From: mykes@3comvax.UUCP (Mike Schwartz)
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Subject: Re: Emacs from unipress
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Date: Mon, 4-Aug-86 12:45:41 EDT
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When you have a few megabytes of ram (or even at least one, for that matter) 
you can leave your EMACS running all the time, so load time is not that big
a factor.  However, making sure that you save your files that you edit back
to floppy is.  A guru meditation in another program while you have unsaved
buffers can be deadly.

I write these days in assembler language as much as possible, and I keep
my Emacs running all the time.  I also keep a CLI running and sometimes have
the manx debugger running at the same time, too.  Of course, the program
I am debugging works at 127 priority, so no task switch overhead is added
to the system while debugging my programs.  Sure is nice to be able to click
on the debugger and step until some code with a bug in it is found.  Then
click on the editor and make the change right there on the spot.  Don't
even have to leave the editor to remake (got the CLI...).

So, I guess to sum it up, who cares how long it takes to load Unipress
Emacs.  The real question is how slow will it be when it is running?  I
use GNU emacs on the vax here occaisionally, and it is ridiculous (slow).
You see the posting in this group about Mac software that is available vs.
Amiga software that is available?  Seems to me that this EMACS could easily
be THE editor/wordprocessor for the Amiga (so far).  Granted, there is no
"desktop" publishing software (yet - emphasize yet), but it is only a matter
of time before it is here.  How about Microsoft Word?  I bet it will be
ported to the Amiga soon (it should be).  In the mean time, we Amiga users
simply "suffer" with "junk" like c-kermit (115K of code...) and Hack (200K
of code) and about 30+ megabytes (let's see, Fred Fish has about 30 disks
* about 1MB per disk [880K...]) of other stuff.  How long was it before the
Mac had more than just 2 programs?