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From: fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Free Software Foundation (was: Re: Mach, the new standard?)
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Date: Thu, 3-Sep-87 14:28:07 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep  3 14:28:07 1987
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In article <10495@orchid.waterloo.edu> gamiddleton@orchid.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton) writes:
>Henry's attitude may be uncharitable, but his complaints are valid.  On a
>Mac-II, hardly an out-dated piece of equipment, and the kind of machine
>that emacs should be running on, it took GNU Emacs 60 seconds to start up.
>VI takes only 3 seconds.  I use emacs myself, but only on big machines

Well, on a Sun-3/50 (comparable in hardware to a Mac-II) GNU Emacs takes about
4 seconds.  Vi takes only a second or two.  I suggest you look for a problem 
with either your machine or your OS.

-Fred
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