Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!oliveb!sun!limes
From: limes@sun.uucp (Greg Limes)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Word processing on Unix
Message-ID: <52207@sun.uucp>
Date: 5 May 88 22:28:02 GMT
References: <449@novavax.UUCP> <10000003@snail>
Reply-To: limes@sun.UUCP (Greg Limes)
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View
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mic@hpersgd.HP.COM writes:
>GNU EMACS will meet your needs nicely.

carroll@snail.CS.UIUC.EDU responds:
[summary: he put it on a 3b2, and it was unusable because it was *SO*
slow; even on a Sun 3/50, the typein lag was bad]
>triple my error rate (since I lose key/screen correlation). I'd try it
>out on the target system before I committed to using it. If you don't
>type very fast, it might be ok.

... or if you have a fast enough machine.  I wonder about the loading
on your 3/50, since I was running 18.44 on a 3/50 and noticed no
problems.  On a 3/60, GNU Emacs is huge but runs quickly.
-- 
   Greg Limes [limes@sun.com]			Illigitimi Non Carborundum