Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Why unix doesn't catch on Message-ID: Date: 29 Apr 89 04:21:23 GMT References: <7632@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <256@jwt.UUCP> <2496@bucsb.UUCP> <274@tree.UUCP> <635@eecea.eece.ksu.edu> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Postdam NY Lines: 11 In-reply-to: terry@eecea.eece.ksu.edu's message of 28 Apr 89 22:12:53 GMT In article <635@eecea.eece.ksu.edu> terry@eecea.eece.ksu.edu (Terry Hull) writes: Anybody want to take a shot at writing GNU Emacs in 8088 assembly so that it will be smaller and faster? You'll probably laugh at me, but that's exactly what Freemacs is. And, given that the original target machine only had 192K, I did as much as I could with as much as I had. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Chrysler gets a bailout -- the rich get theirs and everyone else gets trickles.