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From: jgreco@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Joseph E Greco)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: EMACS on a Commodore?
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Date: 20 Dec 89 23:07:57 GMT
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In article <2743@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> podop08@bingsune.cc.binghamton.edu (podop08) writes:
>     I have heard many rumors about a version of Emacs for the Comoodore
>64.  Can anyone substantiate
>this rumor?  And, more importantly, can I get a copy for the C-128?

This is highly unlikely... even a partial implementation would be extremely
slow, and more importantly would be extremely large.  EMACS on this system
is only 585K in size (external files excluded).

It would be nice....  :-)
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