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From: rkrebs@bambam.UUCP (Randall Krebs)
Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.emacs
Subject: Re: extension languages - where to draw the line
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Date: 20 Feb 90 05:11:16 GMT
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Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, Utah
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From article <131986@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, by jpayne@flam.Sun.COM (Jonathan Payne):
> 
> ...
> 
> You can do anything in Stallman's emacs, but I will never use the
> thing anyway.  It's too huge.  ...
>
> Jonathan Payne

It's too huge?  IT'S TOO HUGE???!!!

Johnathan, I'm surprised.  Your reply seemed pretty reasonable up until
that statement.

Maybe this was true 6 years ago when I was an undergrad and only grad
students were allowed to run emacs because the VAX only had 8 Meg of
memory in it, but C'MON!  This is 1990.  The 1-Mbit RAM's are old news
and the 16-Mbit RAM's are coming.  Home computers come with 4 Meg of
memory and 300 Meg disk drives.  My desk computer (ahem, it's a Sun 3/50)
has 12 Meg in it and a "df" informs me that there is over 8 Gig of disk
space on currently mounted NFS partitions.

Johnathan, you work for one of the giants in the industry.  How can you
still believe that "small is good"?  The truth is that "BIG SELLS MORE
HARDWARE."  You'd better start writing some memory hogs if you want to
keep that cushy position at Sun.

For those of you that haven't figured it out, yet:
:^)  :^)  :^)  :^)  :^)  :^)  :^)  :^)  :^)  :^)  :^)  :^)  :^)  :^)  :^) 

BTW:  Although I can't live without GNU Emacs at work, I am a very
satisfied user of JOVE at home.  Thanks for the editor, Johnathan!
-- 
   Randall S. Krebs                        | "Let it never be said that we
   (esunix!rkrebs@cs.utah.edu)             |  didn't do the very least we
   Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation |  could."
   Salt Lake City, Utah (Where?)           |               - Arthur Unnoon