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From: acliu@skat.usc.edu (Alex C. Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: EMACS on a Commodore?
Summary: Error: Editor too big
Keywords: Errorl: Editor too big
Message-ID: <21895@usc.edu>
Date: 21 Dec 89 07:33:59 GMT
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In article <1588@uwm.edu> jgreco@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Joseph E Greco) writes:
>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 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).

Funny, here at U$C, Emacs is only 1155072 Bytes.  (excluding external
goodies, though)
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