Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mstan!frank
From: frank@Morgan.COM (Frank Wortner)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: GNU-Emacs on Compaq 386 / SCO Xenix?
Message-ID: <162@hudson.Morgan.COM>
Date: 8 Dec 88 19:37:49 GMT
References: <44985@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <79@adobe.COM>
Reply-To: frank@Morgan.COM (Frank Wortner)
Organization: Morgan Stanley and Co., NY, NY
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In article <79@adobe.COM> vonzelow@adobe.UUCP (Jon von Zelowitz) writes:
>My experience with Unipress EMACS on a 386 makes me suspect that
>GNUmacs would also be dog-slow.

A Sun 386i runs GNU Emacs with no problems.  The performance is at least
the equal of a Sun 3/110 (68020-based).  I suspect that a Compaq should
be up to the burden of Emacs.
-- 
						Frank

"Computers are mistake amplifiers."